Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things about defeated Germany and the Germans are as yet clear to the Allied victors. But one thing is already clear: Germany after World War II is going to be much the same sort of psychopathic wallow which produced Naziism and Adolf Hitler after World...
...Army court sentenced him to death; on review, the sentence was reduced to life imprison ment. When a U.S. correspondent saw Karl Fuzeler in his cell, he was quite will ing to admit that Germany had been beaten. But he had lost none of his belief in Hitler and Naziism, none of his conviction that Germans are superior to Americans, Britons, or Russians. The Allied armies happened to have more materiel-that...
...correspondent asked a seven-year-old girl in Aachen what she thought of Adolf Hitler. Remembering her candy ration at school, she said: "He's a nice man who gives me chocolates." Her brother, 12, piped that Britain was a robber who ought to be punished, the U.S. a country run by "Jewish plutocrats...
...official, however, that the doughty old Briton had chalked "For Hitler-Personal" on a 360-lb. shell, then yanked a howitzer's lanyard to fire it over the lines. He had vainly tried to persuade a U.S. commander to let him ride a tank up to the Rhine across from enemy-held Dusseldorf. And he had observed that "one good strong heave" by all the Allies might bring...
...lunched with George VI, the Prime Minister was able to tell his King with pride that British and Canadian troops were beating down the bitterest German resistance of the entire western front. This action was in the Wesel area, where German paratroops, under victory-or-death orders from Hitler himself, were holding a shrinking bridgehead on the Rhine's west bank...