Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where was Adolf Hitler? He had not been seen or heard since July 21. Last week for the first time ever, he failed to address the Reich on the anniversary of his Munich Beer Hall Putsch...
Rumor swirled across Europe: Hitler was in the latter phases of paranoia. He had been seriously injured in last summer's bomb plot. He had been partially paralyzed by an apoplectic stroke. He had undergone a throat operation. He was under the care of four doctors, including a brain specialist. On his physician's advice, he had retired to Berchtesgaden. He had been deposed by Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler. He was simply keeping out of sight so as not to associate himself in the minds of Germans with the days of defeat. He was dead...
Then it was announced that four days after the beer-hall anniversary Hitler would speak. Everybody waited. The German radio broadcast a proclamation purporting to have been written by Hitler: "Requirements of total war have caused me to postpone celebrations. . . . Work at my headquarters does not permit me to leave it, not even for a few days. ... I consider my task today to consist not ... in delivering speeches. . . ." But Hitler's proclamation was read by Himmler...
Where was .Adolf Hitler...
Died. Geoffrey Dawson, 70, small, toweringly conservative retired editor of the thundering London Times; in London. Before the Times's recent liberal trend, Dawson set its editorial tone for a quarter-century. Under him, the paper supported the Chamberlain Government's appeasement of Hitler in the Sudetenland, changed its banner for the first time since 1788 (it went back to the banner...