Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north Rokossovsky's forces, with a thundering echo of history, pierced a memorable spot: Tannenberg. There the Russians looked upon the huge tomb of Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, There Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler's onetime mentor, Ludendorff, had cut to pieces a Russian army in one of World War I's classic victories. When the Germans struck in 1914, the Russians were at the same points they passed this week-Gumbinnen in the northeast, Tannenberg in the south. But this time there were also vast differences : 1) Ludendorff's daring now appeared to be possessed...
...Socialist Soviet Republic, whose Kiev radio unexpectedly broadcast a claim to the Czechoslovak province of Carpatho-Ukraine (also known as Ruthenia), the only part of Czechoslovakia yet liberated by the Red Army. The Teschen area (500 sq. miles), rich in coal and heavily industrialized, had been tossed by Adolf Hitler as a sop to Poland after Munich. Backward, mountainous Ruthenia (4,886 sq. miles) had never formed part of the Ukraine...
...Chips, so creakily gallant and suicidally innocent an old gentleman that he goes from England to Germany in 1938 to look for the mother of a distraught Jewish refugee boy. He finds security, of an uneasy sort, in a seedy-bourgeois Jewish pension. But he soon learns that in Hitler's Berlin it is as much as your life is worth to ask for somebody's address, and that if you are a Jew, your British citizenship is worth only a laugh. When he takes his little problem to the police, he is arrested under suspicion of involvement...
Guest in the House (Hunt Stromberg-United Artists) is the psychological complement of another good Broadway-derived melodrama, Tomorrow the World (TIME, Jan. 15), in which a little boy from Hitler's Germany tries to tear an American household apart. The heroine of Guest in the House is quite unpolitical, but she is a spiritual Nazi - a power-mad, not unfamiliar feminine type for whom psychiatrists could supply accurate names...
...publisher of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times, now serving as a major in the War Department, has not written his first novel simply about Negrophobes. The Winds of Fear is a study of a small Southern town in World War II - grimly united on the question of Hitler, feverishly disunited on the question of Negroes...