Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yanks captured their western ends, the Germans promptly set off the long-prepared demolition charges - huge quantities of dynamite -and blew them up. At Duisburg they blew up the three bridges still standing. Under cover of darkness at Ürdingen, 19 U.S. volunteers ventured out on the Adolf Hitler Autobahn bridge - fully aware that the Germans might blow it at any moment - to find and cut the demolition wires. They were silhouetted in the light of burning tar and chased back off the bridge by enemy gunfire; minutes later the bridge was blown...
...Third Army approached Trier, the Nazis could not afford a heavy defense for the sake of prestige. Several hundred Germans battled briefly on the outskirts, then gave up Trier to the 10th Armored and 94th Infantry Divisions. The old cathedral was badly battered. The old caretaker said, "See what Hitler has done...
Emil Ludwig, German-born biographer (Napoleon, Bismarck, Roosevelt) now living in Los Angeles, prophesied the postwar German attitude: "Germans again will try to avoid responsibility like a rich man's mistress when he has lost all his money. They will cry, pointing at Hitler: 'He seduced...
Tactical Purposes. Hitherto Russia had used these officers in a tactical way to issue statements and make broadcasts against Hitler in order to disrupt morale within the Reich, and especially in the German army. What Marshal Stalin promised at Yalta was that he would not reinstate these officers in their old jobs at the head of an unpurged Wehrmacht...
...will also be a subject for internal political bickerings. Each political party, even the Liberals, will say that they won the war. The only people who will put in no claim at all will be the sailors, soldiers and airmen. Eventually (if we don't hang him quickly) Hitler will claim to have won it -and probably will in the long run, if you don't watch...