Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...setting up two autonomous defense zones in the two-fifths of Germany they have left. For the southern zone, including the Nazi "redoubt," or Alpine bastion, command was vested in a triumvirate: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring; Gestapo boss Heinrich Himmler; Nazi party boss Martin Bormann. Adolf Hitler was not mentioned. Military operations in the northern zone were handed to Field Marshal Ernst Busch, but he will be kept in line by a trusted Nazi, Helmuth Friedrichs, holding direct command of all Elite Guard units...
...Russian strokes. One had breached the German lines only 24 miles from Berlin. Another had won the Seelow heights west of Küstrin. A great concentration of Cossack horsemen and tankmen was ready to gallop and clatter upon Berlin. An order of the day issued over Adolf Hitler's name shrilled that this was the last great attack...
...Gangling, weak-chinned Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") von Hohenzollern. fourth son of the Kaiser, enthusiastic Brownshirt brigadier and Nazi Reichstag deputy, once dubbed "national orator" by Hitler. (His stepmother, Princess Hermine, also passed into U.S. custody at Schloss Rossla in the Harz mountains...
William Ralph Inge (rhymes with sing), 84, retired "Gloomy Dean" of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, who once charged that Martin Luther (rather than Hitler) was the "evil genius" of Germany, let fly another rouser: "The truth is that it is difficult not to like the Germans when one meets them in private life. . . . I do not think that the mass of German people wanted this war. ... I cannot help hoping that if we have to occupy part of Germany we shall let our unwilling hosts see the best side...
...reputation for circumventing the restrictions of the Allied Control Commissions. His own politics were opportunistic. Democracy, he said, "is a luxury that might be borne, perhaps, in prosperous periods." He backed Prince Ernst Riidiger von Starhemberg and his fascist Home Guard, bet on Dollfuss and Mussolini to stave off Hitler. In 1937 he saw the handwriting on the wall, deftly transferred his holdings abroad...