Word: fuehrer
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...windows were permanently sealed. Alfred's own den was built over the stables, as he believed that horse-manure fumes stimulated thought. His most pungent effort was the Generalregulativ, a book of rules that established the Fuehrerprinzip at Krupp's a good half century before der Fuehrer. Alfred dictated his workers' lives down to prescribing their off-duty shoes (wooden clogs). His wife took 25 years of the same niggling, then fled. When he died, Alfred left behind him more than 30,000 interoffice memos...
Putzi, as the piano-playing Hanfstaengl was called, had been a supporter of Hitler from before the 1923 putsch and became the Fuehrer's "court jester" until he fled Germany...
Ford remembers Guderian as a loyal man, one who had no part in the famous July 20 plot to kill Der Fuehrer, and in talking to him, he was able to obtain much of the information needed to recreate that plot. Asking questions as historians, Ford and his colleagues learned for instance that the Germans had been told Coventry was bombed in retaliation for Dresden. The impression gathered from talks with the highly competent generals, Ford recalls, was that "if Hitler had let the generals run the war, such disaster would not have occurred...
...fire-breathing editor, Major Fred Sullens, addressed a one-word editorial to the President: "Nuts." (New York's Daily News picked up the editorial and flung it back under the headline: MISSISSIPPI MUD.) In Louisiana the Shreveport Journal added its jeer: "Heil Eisenhower! Heil to der great Fuehrer!" A more flattering comparison was made, however, by Mississippi's famed Hodding Carter, who telephoned his Delta Democrat-Times from a Maine vacation spot to dictate his state's only editorial endorsing President Eisenhower's constitutional position: "We go along with the first President and the present President...
...Devil Makes Three (MGM) tries to dress up a postwar plot about a new German Fuehrer with some very old-hat movie melodrama...