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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system symbolized by Hirohito must be wrecked as thoroughly as Hitler's Reich. Only utter defeat can destroy the myths of invincibility and divinity. The Allies must carry through the post-victory task of remolding the Japanese mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The God-Emperor | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...Gauleiter ordered the poets' bodies taken to Jena. Two unnamed German civilians-a doctor of philosophy and a lawyer-carried out the order, concealed the coffins in an air-raid bunker beneath a hospital. Then the U.S. Army neared Jena. This time the Gauleiter ordered SS men to destroy the bodies so that they would not fall into the hands of the "American barbarians." But the bodies had disappeared. So had the two Germans in charge of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Iron-Age Pilgrimage | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...implore you to destroy all [my] bad drawings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Art's Sake | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...hall, Stettinius turned angrily on Publisher Meyer. "You and your god damned sheet . . . are trying to destroy me," a New York Daily News reporter heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Diplomatic Lesson | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...Japanese openly wince under the lash of the 6-293. Cried Radio Tokyo: "The enemy seems bent on using them to destroy utterly the Yamato race in a manner far greater in fury than any bombings our Axis partners in Europe experienced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Happy Anniversary | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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