Word: fuhrer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night in Naples' famed old San Carlo Opera, now brilliantly refurbished, Der Fuhrer, Il Re and Il Duce sat through the extremely loud Aïda, which is all about the daughter of a King of Ethiopia...
Adolf Hitler, who combines in his single person the roles of Chancellor (Premier) and Reichsführer or Realmleader (a modernized euphemism for King), was met on the station platform in Rome last week by Il Re Vittorio Emanuele and II Duce Benito Mussolini. Der Fuhrer gave the Nazi salute, II Re the military salute and II Duce the Fascist salute (see p. 23). Afterward the German shook hands with his Italian hosts, and then Premier Mussolini effaced himself, slipping out and driving off in a small car to his office...
Reputedly $20,000,000 was spent by Il Duce's orders on the visit of the Fuhrer. Even the railway station at which he arrived was especially built outside the walls of Rome, connected up with the Eternal City by the brand new Viale Adolfo Hitler. This stately avenue and the Via Dell'Impero led the King-Emperor and Realmleader past several of the most interesting relics of ancient Rome, all floodlighted- for Il Duce had stagemanaged that the Führer should drive past at 8:30 p. m. Soon the German Dictator sat up as though...
First Day. An Italian stiletto, or "Fascist Honor Dagger" as it is called, was worn by Adolf Hitler, emerging on the first morning of his visit, after having received Benito Mussolini for a half-hour conference at the King's Palace. Der Fuhrer laid a wreath at the Pantheon (royal tombs), another at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a third at the Fascist Altar on the Capitoline Hill. Lunch was at the King's Palace, followed by a go-minute conference in Il Duce's office, and then the two Dictators drove to Rome...
...believed to reflect his views, declared there will be no pogroms," reminded everyone that "Germany is a land of justice." In Manhattan arrived Führer Fritz Kuhn of the German-American Bund after a trip to Germany and Austria. Met by two gray-coated, black-trousered Bund officers, Fuhrer Kuhn brought back a message from German Jews to American Jews. "I talked with lots and lots of Jews in Germany," Kuhn said, "and they all told me this: 'Tell the Jews in America to let us alone. We're all right.' Thousands of Jews are returning...