Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young. Last week, soon after Britain's famed civilian Home Guard had "stood down," Heinrich Himmler spoke of new forces arising in the Reich. The best-publicized of these is the Volkssturm or Home Army. Promulgated in Hitler's name, the Volkssturm decree summoned all "able-bodied" males between 16 and 60 except those in the Todt (construction) organization, or in police and security units. Himmler's aim was for three million Volkssturm soldiers; perhaps one million have already been mobilized...
Their weapons are rifles, carbines, tommy guns, automatic pistols, hand grenades, and a simple antitank rifle called the Panzerfaust ("tank fist"). The oldsters train in their spare time, on Sundays and in the evenings; the youngsters, mainly Hitler-Youth, get intensive four-day courses at special camps. Basic unit of the Volkssturm is the four-company battalion, but brigades and divisions may be activated when it becomes capable of disposing bigger units. It has a core of experienced officers, some of them fanatical Nazis...
Germans, wondering whatever has become of Adolf Hitler, were startled by an apparently pointless but planted paragraph in Hitler's Völkischer Beobachter. Headed The Man of Genius, it said...
...eight days for denouncing as pro-U.S. the new, tough supervisor of German firms. Argentina Libre (Free Argentina), a strongly democratic weekly closed for more than a year, was allowed to appear again. It started off with a bang, featuring on its front page a cartoon of Adolf Hitler about to be sealed in his coffin. Inside were articles by three ex-deputies, including Socialist Juan Antonio Solari, outspoken critic of the militarists. An editorial announced that the weekly had reappeared as a test of the Government's announced policy of permitting a free press...
Though ten years retired, William Ralph Inge, London's famed "Gloomy Dean," has lost none of his flair for irritating people. His latest sally, blaming not Hitler but Luther for "the miseries which Germany has brought upon the world" (TIME, Nov. 6), last week brought the 84-year-old Anglican a thoroughgoing rebuke from 19 famed Protestant leaders. Their statement charged the former Dean with forgetting some recent history. Germany's Lutheran Church, said the churchmen, "has offered a more stalwart resistance to Nazi tyranny than has any other group. In Denmark and Norway, the Lutheran Church...