Word: fiihrer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever Comrade Litvinoff's retirement meant, Britain and France thought it was bad news. It was accepted as good news in a Germany which had not failed to notice that, in his last two or three big speeches, Fiihrer Hitler had dropped his usual tirade against the Bolsheviks. Whether it meant nothing or everything. Comrade Stalin had removed one of the smoothest, most accomplished actors from the world's diplomatic stage...
...common people were represented too. Three rooms and part of the main Chancellery Hall were piled high with presents. Peasants sent their native handiwork. Westphalian women knitted 6,000 pairs of socks for the Fiihrer's soldiers. Housewives got together to bake a six-foot cake. From the more militarily minded came pistols, hand grenades, an assortment of knives and daggers, a live eagle which the Führer will release in the Bavarian Mountains...
...putting the skids under the German Republic. One of the last of the Republic's Chancellors, he wanted to get back into the driver's seat. With Junker sup port, he helped persuade President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler Chancellor, believing naively that the Fiihrer would become a figurehead and that he, von Papen, as Vice Chancellor would be the real power in a "Barons' Cabinet." Only hitch came when the Nazis, once in power, took the bit in their teeth and ignored Driver von Papen...
...Mein Kampf Fiihrer Hitler recalls that his association with "robust" boys during his unhappy childhood "caused my mother much grief.'' His comment on his mother's death: "I had respected my father, but I loved my mother...
...From Berlin last week an irate Nazi newscaster griped: "The New York short wave broadcasting station (NBC's W3XL) contributed lying news yesterday during a news broadcast given at the same time the Fiihrer was making his speech." The objectionable items, quoted from British newspapers, were: 1) that Hitler might have to undergo a second operation on his throat; and 2) that German troops were massing near the French and Italian borders. What obviously had the Nazi back up was not NBC's news, but the fact that too many Germans were listening to it when they should...