Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal. Yugoslavia got into the war on the Allied side with no premeditation and almost no preparation. The pro-Axis Regency of Prince Paul had been tolerated until March 1941. When it knuckled under to Hitler's demands that Yugoslavia become a German satellite, the Yugoslavs rebelled. In a bloodless coup détat they tossed out Regent Paul, installed King Peter II, 17. It took the Wehrmacht ten days to overrun the unprepared country. The British, who are believed to have inspired the coup against him, hauled Prince Paul away to South Africa, where they are still paying...
Died. Josef Bürckel, 49, veteran Nazi Gauleiter in the Saar, Austria and Lorraine ; of pneumonia; in Germany. One of Hitler's earliest henchmen, liquor-swilling Bürckel developed from a dissatisfied elementary schoolteacher into Hitler's top plebiscite fixer...
Near Luxembourg the Allies found a purported Hitler staff document. It called on officers to save themselves at all costs: "An officer's salvation in retreat is in the interests of the country." (Lately there has been a low percentage of officers among prisoners taken.) There was other evidence that officer groups, cut off in Holland, were deserting their men, either to save themselves to lead an untried, last-ditch army of civilians and military misfits or to go underground to keep Naziism alive...
...London, after eleven months of solemn deliberation, the United Nations War Crimes Commission announced a list of 350 Nazis who had committed crimes abroad. Unlisted were Hitler, Himmler, Göring and Goebbels...
...Army last week gave a first sample of how it will conduct one of its big post-Hitler jobs: ruling conquered German territory...