Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours, 12,800 passed the lines; in 36 hours, more than 17,000. But there were more thousands to go; a four-hour extension was granted. A score of German soldiers who had no stomach for the last-ditch stand Hitler had ordered tried to slip through, dressed in civilian clothes, but they were stopped...
...France last week the U.S. Third Army captured one German who was convinced that Hitler had told a great truth -at least once. "The Führer was dead right," the disillusioned prisoner said, "when he boasted 'If I could have control of Germany for ten years, you wouldn't be able to recognize...
Through most of the dreary months while China waited for the western Allies to finish the job of beating Hitler first, two seaports on the East China Sea had remained free of the enemy. They were like eyes, through which China could look out to the Pacific, straining for a glimpse of the topmasts of a relieving U.S. fleet. The Japanese had closed each eye for a few months in the past, but the Chinese had reopened them. Not until this year did the Japs decide to deprive China again of what was now its last outlook to the east...
...Russian alphabet is still away at war. Even on the eve of victory not a word is written in this country which is not a weapon. Every sentence written in Russia must help beat Hitler or help build a Communist Russia that will make another such war impossible...
...cannot exaggerate the mark left on Soviet writing by the terrible months of reverses in 1941, right up until the battle for Moscow was won. In those months the writers became so closely identified with the very courage and determination which has finally beaten Hitler back that they all developed muscular, bitter, mystical, adjectival writing styles, which they still employ in the sweeter days of triumph. Those were the days when Simonove wrote Wait For Me - the words of a soldier to his wife: Wait for me, wait very hard -Never give up hope, even if they...