Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their meticulously tidy barracks, they hang up an occasional picture of Hitler. (U.S. prisoners in Germany enjoy the privilege of hanging whatever pictures they please.) More often the Germans have pictures of their families, the Goethe deathmask and Varga girls. They decorate their mess halls with elaborate paintings-the Alps, German heroes, busty girls. Across one day room an artist has painted a group of naked women, on the wall opposite the stern admonition "Ein guter Soldat muss verzichten koennen." (A good soldier must learn to do without...
...week's end, Stalin himself gave the Groza Government a potent shot in the arm. He announced that "the Soviet Government has decided to satisfy the petition of the Rumanian Government" and let the Rumanians take over Transylvania, which Hitler gave to Hungary...
...Adolf Hitler issued an order of the day to his troops, on the tenth anniversary of compulsory military service under the swastika. He rehashed his personal nightmare of German martyrdom, and concluded: "We witness both in the east and the west what our people would have to face. Our task is therefore clear: to put up resistance and to wear down our enemies so long that, in the end, they will get tired and will yet be broken...
...also a moment of historic ironies. Remagen's bridge had spanned the years between World Wars I and II. Completed in 1918, it had been named for General Erich von Ludendorff, later to be Adolf Hitler's sponsor. Its seizure occurred nine years to the day after Hitler had brazenly violated the Versailles and Locarno Treaties by sending German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland...
...usual when victory is in the air. Winston Churchill was as jolly and prankish as a boy on a picnic. Touring the conquered Siegfried Line, the Prime Minister gaily flicked ashes on the futile, grey-green, concrete dragon's teeth which Hitler had set up to keep tanks out of the German heartland. There were hints-decently obscured by censorship-that Mr. Churchill may have expressed his contempt in even more emphatic manner...