Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While elements of the German people have opposed Hitler, Professor Vietor is aware that they have all been forced to submit to the New Order. He does not believe that any known representatives of the liberal element who have escaped will prove future leaders...
...mechanical engineers throughout most of the world, is generally recognized as one of the great authorities on jet-propulsion. In November, 1943, he predicted that Germany would use robot bombs, and since his retirement in 1940, he has addressed audiences in all parts of the United States on Hitler's secret weapons...
Under Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, the classic Junker who is generally regarded as Germany's ablest soldier, Field Marshal Walter Model was commanding in the north, and General Hermann Balck in the south. Model was personally decorated by Hitler last summer for stopping the Russians at the Vistula. Balck had shown defensive ability in the Ukraine, and after the Allied invasion of southern France he succeeded in bringing the remnants of his Panzer corps back to Germany. Now, wherever possible, Model and Balck are sacrificing substandard troops to save good ones. At sensitive spots they still...
...George Bernard Shaw characterized World War II as "a mere Bubble in the froth of history," scorned the notion that a trial of Adolf Hitler would prevent future wars, predicted that the Führer would probably end up in a vice-regal lodge in Dublin. As for women being able to do anything about keeping the peace, Shaw snorted: "Men are pugnacious and women are very, pugnacious...
...gaping hole in floor and ceiling reproves an anxious flunkey: "I'm perfectly aware of that." A lady, calmly knitting in the shelter of the two walls of her house that still stand, replies to a curious passerby: "Yes, since 1940. I wasn't going to let Hitler crow that...