Word: fuhrer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politics his risible handful of strutting, beswastikaed American Nazi Party bullyboys, agape at their Fuhrer's harangues of hate, made even the sneering epithet "Halfpenny Hitler" sound overpriced...
Angel of Destruction. For a time Stauffenberg tried to serve that new order. Fighting for his Fuhrer in the Afrika Korps, he lost his right hand and two fingers of his left, and was posted to the general staff. His work at the highest level convinced him at last that he was serving a vicious criminal cause Rapidly he found himself one of a number of German officers and influential civilians who felt that German honor -not to speak of Europe itself-could survive only if Hitler were overthrown and peace negotiated. Stauffenberg personally enlisted many friends in a conspiracy...
Jewry," he cries. "Let me speak to you of my Fuhrer with love. He who answered our German need. He who res cued us from the depths . . . His power lay in the love he won from the people . . . Do I see you begin to raise your hands? Do I hear you stamp your feet. He gave us our history. He gave us our news. He gave us our art. He gave us our holidays, he gave us our leisure, and he gave our newly-married a copy of Mein Kampf. At the end we loved him . . . With the killers...
Adenauer served as Cologne's mayor until 1933, when Hitler took over. Brownshirts adorned the city's bridge with swastika flags for the Fuhrer's first visit, but Adenauer had them torn down before Hitler arrived and refused to greet him. That abruptly ended his career as mayor, and he was classified as "politically unreliable." He spent the next twelve years alternately in prison or reading and tending his roses in the hillside villa he built at RhÖndorf. There, near war's end, he was nearly hit by an American shell as he watched...
Died. Robert Watson, 77, actor, best known as the screen impersonator of Adolf Hitler in World War II movies (The Devil with Hitler. The Hitler Gang), a onetime vaudevillian (from Springfield, 111.), whose striking resemblance to der Fuhrer caused so much heckling that he ate in his dressing room and spent his nonworking hours alone in a trailer he named Berchtesgaden; of cancer; in Hollywood...