Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Neville Chamberlain flew to Berchtesgaden to placate Adolf Hitler in September 1938, he upset the plans of top-ranking German officers. They were getting ready to arrest Hitler...
Accordingly, the conspirators determined to overthrow Hitler and expose his reckless gambling to the German people. "The leaders . . . were myself, General Erwin von Witzleben, commander of the Berlin garrison; Colonel General Ludwig Beck, my predecessor; Count von Helldorf, police president of Berlin; General von Brockdorf, head of the Potsdam garrison, and General Edwin von Stülpnagel. The commander in chief, von Brauchitsch, had been informed of the conspiracy...
...Nick of Time. Halder decided to strike on the night of Sept. 14. He sent a Panzer division to General von Witzleben at Berlin without arousing suspicion. Just when the coup seemed completely assured of success, London announced the umbrella-toting Prime Minister's impending visit to Hitler's mountain. Halder, shaken by this dramatic evidence of the Führer's political sagacity, called off the plot, thereafter toed the Hitler line. Later, Chamberlain's policy was defended as giving Britain time to prepare. Halder's statement indicated that it was Germany that...
...served the Nazis as Lord Mayor of Prague, shrilly defended his collaboration, swore that he had been loyal to the Republic. The People's Court in Prague heard him patiently, weighed his words against his deeds: persecution of Jews, jailing of students, Germanizing of Czechs, toadying to Hitler. Then it sentenced him to death for high treason...
General George S. Patton Jr. slipped into the act just at the last moment: the General had his picture taken astride a white horse (see cut) which Hitler had intended to send to the Emperor...