Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied troops smash into the heart of Germany he is going in right behind them, to help reopen TIME's Berlin Office, closed since June 1941 when our last correspondent there locked its door and caught the train for Basel to telephone us the true story of Hitler's break with Stalin from the uncensored side of the Swiss frontier...
...Germany; and he lived and worked in Germany as a New York Times correspondent for years-all through the shame of Munich and the ravaging of Poland, the fall of France and the blitz of Britain. In fact, his mother and three sisters were caught in Leipzig when Hitler declared war on America-went through three of the heaviest bombings there ("The house was like rubber, bending back and forth, the floor rising up and down like waves...
Knauth remembers his Berlin correspondent days as one bout after another with the Nazis. He got his best chance to study Hitler's bigwigs closeup at the Berlin Auto Show, when he talked his way into a restricted area, found himself rubbing elbows with Hitler himself, Hess, Goebbels and Göring. Twice he was arrested by the Gestapo-once for photographing a riot, again for being in a café suspected as a gathering place for people who didn't like Nazis...
...Nationalist Socialist tide rose, and ill-timed tax measures of the ministry were used by the opposition to secure unfavorable mob opinions. Finally, in May, 1932, Hitler grew so strong that Professor Bruening was forced to resign as Chancellor and to devote himself to teaching...
...thrown in to confuse the plot and slow up the action), Martin, who is important to the Allies for some unknown reason, tries to make his escape from the carefully guarded, Hotel Berlin. In the same surroundings, a Nazi general is purged for his part in the plot on Hitler's life and an old, tottering room clerk becomes drafted into der Fuehrer's army in the picture's only humorous scene...