Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole hour Hitler refused to see his callers. Then he gave in. Rundstedt spoke first, announced that henceforth Hitler's military genius must not interfere with the conduct of the war. Hitler flared up, threatened to have Rundstedt hanged. Then Himmler cut in and said that "with all respect for the Führer." the war came first, and that the SS supported the Wehrmacht's demands...
Nazi field commanders, trying to hold waverers in line, were patently annoyed at the "safe-conduct" passes dropped by Allied planes on German positions, which as a rule promise the bearer unmolested passage through the lines and decent treatment in captivity. Recently the night-flying Luftwaffe has been dropping on Allied positions the German retort, a mock pass which reads...
...German soldier who carries this safe conduct is using it as a sign of his genuine wish to go into captivity for the next ten years, to betray his fatherland, to return home a broken old man and very probably never to see his parents, wife and children again...
Each college will be assigned a country to represent at the conference, and will be expected to conduct a study of the political, economic, and social problems of the nation. Aided by Columbia reading lists, Harvard will prepare to lobby for its assigned country and will use the study as a background in constructing the model treaty...
Correspondents quoted a "high" U.S. officer who has closely studied the German operations since Dday: "If Hitler were running the Army now, he would probably be screaming to his generals to retake Aachen by 6 o'clock tonight, instead of allowing them to conduct the highly skilled defense they are making. . . . The use the Germans have made of the past two months to recover, and their remarkable resurgence of military power, show no amateur is now in charge, but shrewd professional soldiers...