Word: hitler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another Gamble. As the year drew to a close, the Germans found their border invaded and themselves in a position where they, in turn, preferred a great gamble to a continued, steady, losing retreat. Adolf Hitler had withdrawn into the shadows and Heinrich Himmler was Germany's Man of 1944. Himmler had held the people and the Army in line while he squeezed them for the last ounces of German strength. Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, the cold, wily Junker who mounted the December counteroffensive, was the Man of the Hour...
Winston Churchill, Man of 1940, had also been a symbol. In Britain's darkest and finest hour, his flaming words and dauntless courage had heartened his country to stand alone against Hitler at the crest of his Blitzkrieg power. As one of the organizers of victory, Churchill had been magnificent. Now in the last weeks of 1944, he was facing-with his usual truculence-the heaviest criticism of his World War II career; his critics charged him with responsibility for the civil war in Greece and for selling out Poland to Russia...
...Runner-Up. Joseph Stalin, Man of 1942, who in that year had started to roll the Hitlerites back from the Caucasus oilfields, was also beginning to look a little different to many Americans in the dawn light of victory-or perhaps more like his pre-1941 self. After dealing Hitler one of his two heaviest defeats of the year, Stalin's central armies had stopped on the Vistula, while those on the flanks pursued secondary aims. Then followed the ill-timed martyrdom of General Bor and his heroic partisans in Warsaw; the Moscow-sponsored Government at Lublin; the methodical...
...Hitler had promised his people that he would drive Eisenhower off the beaches in nine hours. The Nazis were not even trying to drive him off after nine days. And that was the story for the rest of the battle of France. Eisenhower was always able to take more than Hitler could give...
Rudolf Hess, hairy; fervent disciple of Adolf Hitler, onetime No. 3 Nazi, who became the United Kingdom's No. 1 prisoner of war when he parachuted into England in 1941, was reported to be in a high state of "nervous and mental" deterioration, cutting up so much it required the strength of 30 guards to subdue...