Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler, Goebbels and Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler had retired to Berchtesgaden for a Wagnerian finale...
...himself did not know. If Patton got a hunch-and Ike Eisenhower gave him the green light-he might peel off with a tank column for Berlin, or Leipzig or Berchtesgaden, at a moment's notice. If Patton's wildest dream came true, he would find Adolf Hitler in a German tank and slug it out with him. But for the moment, dreams aside, Patton had reason for calm and happy reflection. He was having the time of his action-choked, 40-year Army career...
While the western Allies cut toward the head and heart of the dying German dragon, the Red Army sliced up into its belly. Austria, the land whence Adolf Hitler sprang, was invaded...
Death rattled in the throat of the Nazi Reich. And as the Caliban State, which Hitler had prophesied would last a thousand years, threshed and trembled in its last agonies, 80,000,000 Germans were cast into chaos...
...Great centers like Frankfurt (see below) and Mannheim had become ghost cities, stark in their architectured wreckage, starker in their human disintegration. The few Germans left behind were unheroic, impenitent, apathetic, sullen, unable or unwilling to believe what had happened. The diehards were mostly adolescent gangs, leftovers of Hitler Youth, who fought street battles between themselves, spied on Allied authorities and sometimes flung grenades into Allied trucks...