Word: fuhrer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen years ago last week. Soviet armies were pressing into Poland, the Western Allies were about to break through at St.-Lô, and no one around the heavy oak table at the Fuhrer's headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia, was able to offer much encouragement. "Do you know where the Russian Panzer armies are?" demanded Hitler, and got no answer. "Again no information from aerial reconnaissance . . .?" As the dreary conference droned on that sweltering July 20, 1944, a trim, distinguished colonel named Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg strolled into the room and, after being greeted by Hitler, casually...
Films for the Fuhrer. The July 20 plotters-a network of diplomats, politicians and clergymen, working with disillusioned generals and colonels-had paid dearly for their pains. As soon as the news went out that Hitler was alive, the Gestapo began its dragnet Operation Thunderstorm, which brought the number of Germans arrested that year to 33,000. Stauffenberg was shot, and every other man, woman and child by that name was ordered arrested. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chose suicide by poison. At least 600 men were either guillotined or strangled by piano wire suspended from meat hooks, and their final...
...last time the Saar "went home" to Germany, after a plebiscite in 1935, scarlet swastika banners waved, brownshirts yelled "Heil Hitler," and the Fuhrer's guttural shouts rasped from street-corner loudspeakers. No such vaunts and threats disturbed the sooty serenity of the Saar last week when the famed coal and steel region on the French border was restored a second time to the German economy...
...historic Berlin-to-Baghdad ambitions of the Germans got nowhere politically under the whip of Kaiser or Fuhrer, but before the peaceful push of West Germany's prosperous economy, they are succeeding surprisingly well. Armed now with sample case and blueprints instead of howitzer and battle plans, West Germany's businessmen are aggressively pushing ahead with a more realistic version of the old "Drive to the East." In Beirut last week the beaming manager of the local Volkswagen agency had only one complaint: he could not get cars shipped in from Germany fast enough to meet Lebanese demand...
...likes it even less in war. He is no hero, but he is something even better: an intelligent man who does his duty superlatively well. His instinctive dislike of Hitler and his works makes him no less the friend of his artillery unit commander, who stubbornly insists that the Fuhrer is infallible. When a martinet from the rear comes to take over the troop, Asch has a field day that a G.I. of any nationality can appreciate. It is the old story of the parade-ground perfectionist who simply cannot grasp the fact that war is a dirty and even...