Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1942, when the British and U.S. air forces really began to work over Germany, they have subtly insulted Adolf Hitler by ignoring his fabulous mountain castle at Berchtesgaden. Last week it seemed for a while that the insult had been spoiled. Berchtesgaden had been attacked by U.S. Thunderbolts from Italy...
...story was quickly qualified. The planes, it turned out, had strafed Berchtes-gaden's rail yards-four miles from Hitler's house. Some pilots dropped their auxiliary fuel tanks (which usually explode when they hit) near the castle. Hitler may have been scared-if he was home. The squadron leader had never heard of Berchtesgaden before last week; to him, it was just another kraut village. But Berchtesgaden, like Tokyo's Imperial Palace, is now a place where U.S. planes wander like tourists, taking snapshots and committing nuisances...
...Free Germany Committee was not one committee but two. Committee No. 1 (and undoubtedly the more important for Russian purposes) was the National Committee of Free Germany. It consisted of German Communists and fellow travelers, most of whom were refugees from Hitler's Germany. Most important among them was the German Communist and ex-Reichstag deputy Wilhelm Pieck, who with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht had organized Germany's 1919 Spartacus revolution (TIME...
Versailles broke down completely in solving Europe's long-range problems-the causes of World War II. The League failed to enforce the peace. The Rhineland was evacuated five years early. When Hitler came along, even Allied governments gave him some support, because he promised order in Central Europe and a crusade against Bolshevism. The system of Versailles provided no unifying policy or principle to keep peace and plenty in Europe...
...days when it was proper for U.S. newsmen to be on good terms with Adolf Hitler, William Randolph Hearst's high-strung, highly paid and highly touted Karl H. von Wiegand led the pack. Publicity handouts called him the "personal acquaintance of Chancellor Adolf Hitler for more than 17 years [who] has had more interviews and discussions with the German Chancellor than any other American. . . ." When Hitler swept across France in 1940, Von Wiegand, with his thick spectacles and his gold-handled walking stick, was flown by the Germans to Paris...