Word: fatherland
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...skiing over the border into Czechoslovakia. From there he went to Sweden, while his wife was being held as a hostage in Germany during 1934 and 1935. From Sweden he issued underground newspapers and pamphlets until 1940, when the German government ordered his return to the fatherland...
...demoralized, frustrated lower middle class. Mucked about by the last war, by inflations and depressions, worried neurotic by unemployment, pressed between big business and the trade unions-these were the ones who turned to Hitler and the Nazi Party for economic salvation, for personal advancement, for resurrection of their Fatherland...
...steady deterioration of the German economy compel us to recognize the hopelessness of Germany's situation. . . . Every thinking German officer realizes that Germany has lost the war. . . . The war is continued solely in the interests of Hitler and his regime against the interest of the people and the Fatherland...
...what is necessary-otherwise this will be done without you or even perhaps against you. . . . Declare war on this fatal regime and . . . demand the formation of a government backed by the people's confidence. Only such a government would be capable of creating the conditions for our Fatherland's honorable withdrawal from the war, and for insuring a peace which will not mean a calamity to Germany...
...Blackshirts! Italians! . . . . I am sure you will recognize the voice that called often to you in . . . the most beautiful days of the Fatherland. . . . I needed some time before again appearing in public. . . . It had never been heard of that a man who had served his King absolutely loyally for more than 20 years was arrested on the steps of the King's private house, forced to enter a Red Cross car . . . and taken from one barracks to another at great speed...