Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hidden, strangely silent. Berlin suggested that he was resting after arduous labors on the Russian front. On the thin shoulders of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels fell the job of exhorting the German people: "Are you willing to continue the war with wild determination, unshaken by all vicissitudes of fate...
...session with Hitler. "I saw the Führer yesterday," he shouted thickly. "I had the incredible joy of being with him for the whole day. I can only tell you-" Here Ley's voice broke, but he recovered, went on: "We do not complain, oh Fate! Take whom you will as a sacrifice! . . . But spare us one! Preserve for us the health and strength of our Führer Adolf Hitler...
...World War II, no single fact had held such enormous possibilities. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812, Rommel's retreat from Egypt in 1942 involved the fate of continents; the Wehrmacht's retreat involves the fate of the world. When the full extent and meaning of the retreat are clear, the world will be better able to judge the winner of World War II, better able to gauge its length...
...Only today do we realize fully what would have become of Germany and Europe if fate had not handed power to National Socialism on Jan. 30, 1933. . . . Today there are only two alternatives: either Germany and her allies win or the Central Asiatic flood from the east will surge over the oldest civilized continent...
...trial. Deftly, coolly, Author Simenon makes the finale a freezing picture of a colonial court in action. When Timar hurries to court to denounce his mistress, a trader informs him: "Out here white folk hang together." In a farcical trial the framed Negro is left to his fate. Timar, half-crazy with his experience, is shipped blathering back to France...