Word: fanaticisme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"General Dietl, this faithful and true friend, has been my unflinching supporter among the German officer corps. . . . May Dietl's attitude stand forth as a shining example for many German officers and generals. . . . May they learn to radiate faith, to inspire confidence in any circumstances, especially in times of...
Rundstedt could scarcely pass a fanaticism test. A devout and amoral Junker, he gives his basic loyalty to the German military tradition rather than to the Nazi Party. After his dismissal last week, a Stockholm rumor promptly had him under house arrest. More probably he retired to his country place...
Even Adolf Hitler seemed to feel that the black days had come. Cried he last week: "How could a struggle which has behind it all the fanaticism of a nation end otherwise than in victory, quite irrespective of what the situation may be at the moment?"
Germany also had trained men. Lord Londonderry, who was Britain's Air Minister in the years when the Luftwaffe was being built, says that the Nazi pilots never lost confidence during the blitz: "When for the first time they witnessed their comrades spinning to the earth or sea in...
The results of the Jap fanaticism stagger the imagination. The very violence of the scene is incomprehensible to the Western mind. Here groups of men had met their self-imposed obligation, to die rather than accept capture, by blowing them selves to bits. I saw one Jap sitting impaled on...