Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans kept on fighting. General Ike commented: "I have searched and searched to find their reason for prolonging the agony." He finally decided there were two reasons: Hitler, with his determination to stay on, and the "one hope" that the Allies would split apart. "They had that desperate hope, unquestionably. Otherwise there was no sense in taking the last month of pounding...
...industrialists who gave Hitler his start are frantically eager to resume production. They have the cash, the plans, often the raw materials on hand., They are willing to make anything, even weapons for the Allies to use against Japan...
...Allies had made the Normandy invasion successful. A Wehrmacht plot to kill Adolf Hitler had failed. Field Marshal General GÜnther von Kluge, one of the plotters, knew that he was finished and suspected that Germany...
...near Avranches in northwestern France. There he waited, hour after hour, for a party of U.S. Third Army officers with whom he had secretly arranged to discuss surrender. They did not appear. Fearing betrayal, Kluge hurried back to his headquarters. Awaiting him there was an order to report to Hitler in Berlin. Kluge got into a car, swallowed poison and died on the way to an airfield near Metz...
...aerial warfare you had a great ally - the FÜhrer." GÖring im plied that Germany would have won if the air war had been left to him, said that his Luftwaffe had developed a marvelous jet fighter "that was to sweep Allied bombers from the skies." Hitler rejected...