Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, generally considered Nazi Germany's ablest military strategist, wished aloud that people would stop referring to the 1944 Ardennes counterattack as the "Rundstedt offensive." It was entirely Hitler's baby, he said...
There were echoes of 1935 and 1938 plebiscites in Russian-occupied Saxony last week. Hitler never loaded a question more heavily than that which the Russians put to German voters: "Do you agree to the law for the transfer of the plants of militarist and Nazi criminals into the hands of the people...
Wrote a Saxon Social Democrat: "We are living here as in the days of Hitler. I shall write on my ballot 'What are you trying to put across with this nonsense...
...Monday morning Russia proudly announced that 77.7% had voted Ja. Hitler had trained the Saxons well...
...said that "every French journalist is for sale," and the saying was embarassingly close to the truth. The papers for which they wrote-rowdy, defamatory, opinionated and corrupt-hastened France's collapse. The Minister of Information in Paul Reynaud's 1940 Cabinet, powerful Jean Prouvost, agitated for Hitler's armistice terms, spoke out against Britain. To Parisians, during the occupation, the name of his Paris-Soir (circ. 1,400,000) became as irrevocably linked with German propaganda as those of Le Temps, Le Matin and others which spoke in Nazi accents...