Word: germane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Commons, the Prime Minister observed: "Herr Hitler says much in his speech about the humane 'methods by which he has waged war. I can only say that methods are not made humane by calling them so, and accounts of German bombing of open towns and machine gunning of refugees have shocked the world. . . . Our general purpose in this struggle is well known. It is to redeem Europe from the perpetually recurring fear of German aggression and to enable the peoples of Europe to preserve their independence and liberties. . . . Hitler's speech at Danzig yesterday...
...inspection of French lines to broadcast: "I am not the leader of fanatic masses. I am charged with direction of a nation of free men. . . . They know why they are fighting. They are fighting because Germany has forced war on us, because for the last three years the devouring German ambition has not left Europe a single secure...
...After so many lies and so many denials, German propaganda is left the last hope: That of splitting the forces which are going to shatter her march toward world domination. It is clear that German propaganda now has no more than two objectives. It wants to separate France from England. It wants to split the French among themselves...
...when Hitler was about to order German troops into the Rhineland, Fritsch led a clique of officers who opposed the move, and Hitler's reputed pledge to commit suicide if the bluff failed was said to have been given him. Next tiff between the two occurred when good Protestant Fritsch hotly defended Pastor Martin Niembller, who was being hounded by the Nazis.* In 1938 it was Fritsch who carried straight to Hitler himself the class-conscious Army's protest against Minister of War Marshal Werner von Blomberg's marriageto his stenographer. In the purge that followed both...
Last week the Associated Press reported from Berlin that the Army again denied Fritsch was in Poland. Twenty-four hours later came an official German communique, datelined "Führer Headquarters." It announced: "Colonel General von Fritsch was killed the 22nd of September in battle before Warsaw. . . . The Führer ordered a military and state funeral...