Word: fiihrer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over some grubby last effects of the late Adolf Hitler. To drab little Frau Anni Winter, his onetime housekeeper ("Hitler was always good to me"), the court last week awarded one used Hitler suitcase, five copies of Mein Kampf, a silver-framed photograph, three mediocre watercolors painted by Der Fiihrer himself. The state of Bavaria won custody of three party emblems bearing Hitler's name, plus his leather briefcase and a few of his staff-meeting doodles. Frau Anni promptly announced that she would sell her cherished legacy to buy a café. Bavaria did not say what...
...expected a rational discussion of my arguments . . . But ... the mere mention of the strategic question worked like a spark in a powder barrel. The Fiihrer flew into a fury and directed a stream of completely unfounded attacks on us ... I began to realize that Adolf Hitler simply did not want to see the situation as it was, and that he reacted emotionally against what his intelligence must have told him was right...
...Walled City. German Novelist Werner Bergengruen began writing A Matter of Conscience in 1929. By 1935, when the book was published, all Germany had become a kind of Cassano. But to Bergengruen's surprise, even the Nazi press praised A Matter of Conscience as "the Fiihrer novel of Renaissance times." Their mistake was probably not much greater than that of its readers who took the book as a sly but calculated assault on Hitlerism (500,000 copies have been sold on the Continent). The Grand Prince of this first of Bergengruen's 60 books to be published...
...Heil Hitler, padre! . . . Let's skip all the phony piety, shall we? When a man deserts he's asking for all he gets . . . The rest is up to the firing squad. Victory will go to the strong, and the Fiihrer has no time for yellowbellies...
...hand. His "good German" chaplain is a preachy bore who loves Beethoven and quotes Goethe, thrills to the "knightly shimmer" of a dashing captain headed for certain death at Stalingrad. But if Hitler's Germany had had the same ratio of soul-searching Hamlets as Unquiet Night, the Fiihrer's Wehrmacht would have been reduced to a hard core of about a platoon...