Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from reaching this end, we shall fight and defend ourselves." Doenitz moved to Denmark. He had dismissed from his rump Government (the personnel of which was not disclosed) Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. As rump Foreign Minister he named mild-mannered, Oxford-educated Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, 58, Hitler's back-seat Minister of Finance, Krosigk echoed his Führer: peace for Germany but no surrender to the "Bolshevik terror...
...Third Reich was ending in political rubble and rabble. But even death demands an undertaker. To head the rump Reich appeared a rump Führer-Grand Admiral Ivarl Doenitz, a fanatical Nazi, and Hitler's master planner of submarine warfare. Seconding him was Albert Speer, also a fanatical Nazi, and Hitler's brilliant Minister of War Production...
George Szell (pronounced Sell), choosy Czecho-Hungarian conductor and a Hitler-hating refugee, was unable to conduct the touring Metropolitan Opera's performance of Die Meistersinger in Chicago. He had German measles...
Berlin fell. Hitler was reported dead. Paris was deeply stirred-for Gabrielle Colette, author of The Gentle Libertine and 20 other novels about love, had been elected to the Académie Goncourt. Now she would sit with "The Ten," the living literary immortals who each year award the Prix Goncourt to the best French novel. One newspaper killed Hitler's obituary to make way for Colette's biography...
...last 15 years: nothing. I didn't budge. Why should I budge? A German colonel came. He told the concierge he loved only three things in the world-flowers, birds and Colette's novels." When she was asked if she would go to Berlin on Hitler's invitation, she answered: "My conscience as a Frenchwoman will dictate to me what I should...