Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Napoleon, the last man to go conquering through Europe, lasted 15 years. Adolf Hitler has already lasted six. Historians wondered, now that he has taken to outright conquest, how many more good years he had coming to him. For the history books say he who begins swallowing minorities begins swallowing poison...
From the East a bitter wind bearing snowflakes bigger than bullets swept over the land of the Czechs and Slovaks last week. From the West came Hitler...
...power politics Adolf Hitler exhibits all the amazing intuitive timing and swift footwork that his namesake, Adolf Wolgast, pugilist of German extraction, used to show in the prize ring. Adolf Hitler has made only one error in timing-when he started a punch at Austria in 1934 and was blocked by Benito Mussolini. The speed, precision and preparation with which Adolf Hitler moves should no longer surprise the world. But last week he outdid himself. The four familiar steps of a Hitler conquest-preliminary propaganda, conference with victims, march of troops, and triumphal entry-followed each other like the rapid...
Tuesday, 4 p.m. Peremptorily Hitler commanded President Emil Hácha to come to Berlin from Prague for a conference. Accompanied by his daughter and Foreign Minister Frantisek Chvalkovsky, Dr. Hácha boarded a special train. Week's best example of how fast the Hitler machine was turning over: Dr. Hácha's train was one hour late in Berlin because of traffic congestion caused by troop trains already on their way to Bohemia...
Wednesday 1 a.m. A summons called the visiting diplomat to the Chancellery. Dr. Hácha was ushered into Herr Hitler's work room. There, besides the Führer and his aides, were numerous army generals, who throughout the interview were periodically sent out for mysterious phone calls to Prague. (The same form of pressure was applied to Kurt von Schuschnigg at Berchtesgaden...