Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began. While the King was speaking the German armies were driving to smash the Polish defensive triangle of Lwow-Lublin-Cracow before winter weather aided the Poles. While the bombers were loading, the Chancelleries were preparing their papers to place the guilt of launching the war (see p. 20). Then, the spokesmen stepped from the stage of history; the silent generals took their place...
...Four German submarines reported off Curaçao; guards strengthened around Army and Naval bases; a purge of the U. S. intelligence; quarrels in high offices...
...voice broke slightly when he read Britain's ultimatum. It grew angry when he said that if Poland remained undefended every country in Europe would fall by the Nazis' "sickening technique." There was a roar from the House when he pounded the table and cried: "The German Chancellor has not hesitated to plunge the world into misery to serve his senseless ambitions." There was a louder roar when he said, "We have no quarrel with the German people except that they allowed themselves to be ruled by a Nazi Government" (see "White Papers" p. 38). But Prime Minister Chamberlain...
...myself am today, and will be from now on, nothing but the soldier of the German Reich; just as I fought in the last war, so I will fight now. I shall not take off this uniform until we have achieved victory. . . . However, if something should happen to me; I want the German people to know that I have appointed Field Marshal Göring to become my successor. If something should happen to Field Marshal Göring, my deputy Rudolf Hess, will take his place; and if something should happen to Hess, a senate which I will soon...
When he was a young man Adolf Hitler tried to get into the Vienna Art Academy, was rejected because his sketches were "below standard." For the rejection he blamed the Jews. Two days after his Reichstag speech he addressed a proclamation to the German people, saying: "It is that Jewish plutocratic and democratic upper crust which . . . hates our new Reich." Then he prepared to leave for the Eastern Front, where his Army and that of Smigly-Rydz, an able if academic landscapist, were locked in a painters...