Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent issues of The New Yorker have devoted quite a little space to a story, which they relate in seeming earnestness, contending that Herr Hitler was killed about four or five years ago and that his place has been taken by a double or doubles since his death...
...reason for that chance is obviously that the democracies have a little more marrow in their bones since Munich. French and British defense-and hence morale-have distinctly improved. Mr. Roosevelt's tough talk against the dictatorships has helped. It was even possible to construe in Herr Hitler's statement that Germany must "export or die" an invitation to commerce rather than war. Typical French move was a conference of high French Generals in Tunisia at which General Auguste Nogues, Resident General and Commander-in-Chief of all French Armed Forces in Morocco, presided...
When Andre François-Poncet, former French Ambassador to Germany and now to Italy, went to the Bavarian Alps last October to take leave of Führer Adolf Hitler, he thought he was expected at the familiar Berghof, the Führer's well-known mountain chalet near Berchtesgaden. Not far from the Berghof, however, the driver took a different road, the car began to ascend a highway winding five miles up a steep mountain. Soon the highway became a mere shelf on the side of the mountain. Suddenly the road ended before two big bronze doors...
Frenchmen Herr Hitler likes, it was a distinct compliment to get a look at it. It took 3,000 workmen months to dig the road, bore the tunnel and shaft and build the Führer's mountain eyrie. The cost ran into millions of marks...
...become even more lonely than Nazi lore has pictured him to be. Rumor has it that he built the Adlerhorst as a mausoleum. Other theories have it that here he intends to write a new, great German philosophy or finish the sequel to Mein Kampf. To a psychoanalyst Hitler's shaft would be an obvious symbol of impotence; to psychiatrists the desire to be so completely alone would stamp him as a schizoid (split) personality. The ordinary schizoid who cannot build a lonely house occasionally withdraws into his own shell and refuses to speak or deal with other people...