Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked for an extension of the commission's powers to try Nazis for crimes against their own nationals, e.g., Jews. The answer, which arrived four months later, said: no. Sir Cecil's second letter, written last October, asked for international courts to try arch war criminals like Hitler, Himmler, Mussolini. The answer, which arrived three months later, said: no. A fortnight ago Sir Cecil wrote a third letter: his resignation. This week he was succeeded by Lord Justice Finlay, eminent British jurist...
...Bulgarian listeners Radio Sofia broadcast a more sensational side of the trials (see above). One of the defendants was a former Regent, Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III, who died mysteriously after a command visit with Adolf Hitler a year and a half...
Mystic Tsar Boris may have died by Mystic Adolf Hitler's orders. Prince Cyril declared on the witness stand that he was "convinced" that the Nazis had murdered his brother. On the return flight from Germany, said Cyril, Tsar Boris was given an oxygen mask impregnated with "a strong solution" which caused embolism and death. The Germans claimed that he died of a heart attack and a lung ailment...
...Adolf Hitler, whose rumored afflictions range from cerebral hemorrhage to an abnormal taste for cutting rugs with his bicuspids, was reported by the Stockholm Morgon-Tidningen to have a new ailment: ear trouble, brought on by last July's attempted assassination. Hitler's hearing, said Stockholm, is so impaired that he can "no longer judge the sound of his words, nor can he use tones of irony or contempt, or his famous false heartiness...
Franz Lehar, venerable (74), Hungarian-born Viennese operetta king, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow (1905), was reported under "house arrest" in his Vienna home. Aryan Lehar's only other reported brush with the Nazis occurred three years ago when he refused to obey Nazi orders to leave his Jewish wife...