Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battered, bustling towns of Western Germany, campaign posters and blaring sound trucks shattered summer's sluggish quiet. Next week, in their first free general election since Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933, Germans will choose 400 representatives for the Bundestag (lower house) of the Deutsche Bundesrepublik, the long-awaited Federal Republic of Germany. Chief contestants for power: the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. Their platforms had one vital plank in common: sharp criticism of the Western occupation powers...
...Lord's Will." West Germany's pre-election atmosphere was scarcely democratic in the U.S. or British sense. The mental and moral morass left behind by Hitler nourished many factions on the lunatic fringe. The tiny, extreme-right-wing Deutsche Rechtspartei advertised itself with the command: "Vote for DRP-this is Our Lord's Will." In Düsseldorf an anonymous group distributed swastika, swathed pamphlets extolling Hitler, reviled Jews, urged Germans-many of whom were weary and wary of all political parties-to stay away from the polls...
...Communist drive against the Roman Catholic Church, which is essentially an effort to split it up into national segments, follows a plan conceived by Adolf Hitler. The diary of Nazi Racist Alfred Rosenberg, published last week by U.S. Military Government in Germany, tells how in 1940 Hitler planned to set up a German Catholic Church with its own pope. He also intended to have a pope for each German satellite country. Rosenberg quotes Hitler as saying: "The more popes, the better...
...triumph and a uniform designed for him by Hitler, Abetz returned to Paris in 1941 as German high commissioner of occupied France and ambassador to Vichy...
Otto Abetz met Luchaire, became his friend, married Luchaire's secretary, Suzanne de Brouckere. In those days, Abetz loved France with a clean passion. The passion endured even while, on both sides of the Rhine, the foundations of rapprochement were crumbling. Hitler, backed by money from Banker von Schroeder and others, had come to power...