Word: fuhrer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capitulated in World War II, a fanatic Wehrmacht general, commanding a force of last-ditch Nazis, held out against the Russians in a Bohemian mountain redoubt. Field Marshal Ferdinand Schorner, 62, had been named by Hitler to succeed him as commander-in-chief of the German army; in the Fuhrer's last testament his name ranked sixth.* In pursuance of the dead Fuhrer's wishes, Schorner went on fighting, ruthlessly killing hundreds of his own men who resisted the futile slaughter. He finally deserted his outfit disguised as a Tyrolean peasant, gave himself up to the U.S. 42nd...
...FLEW FOR THE FUHRER (213 pp.)-Heinz Knoke (translated by John Ewinq] -Holt...
Hitler's Secret Conversations, by Adolf Hitler (introduced by British Historian H. R. Trevor-Roper). The Fuhrer's unguarded, all-night talkfests, taken down in shorthand by party associates, give an excellent insight into a weird and fascinating mind (TIME...
School for Democracy The hatchet-faced little man known as Fritz Roessler disappeared in the rubble of the defeated Third Reich. A street corner no-good until he joined Hitler's brownshirts, he rose in Nazi favor by cultivating a Fuhrer mustache and showing a high talent for defiling Jewish graves. He became a captain in the German army, and Nazi propaganda boss in the state of Saxony...
...Berlin. In a file of top-drawer Nazis, they found Fritz Roessler's name and picture, and it was plainly the face of Dr. Franz Richter; so was the handwriting. He had audaciously remarried his own wife, adopted his own children, lived unsuspected-and still true to the Fuhrer-for seven postwar years...