Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes the air parade roared over various sections of London. It was Sunday noon and in the churches worshipers commemorated another day of history: "The Victory of the Few." On this day, four years before, a few handfuls of R.A.F. fighter pilots had turned back Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe. Londoners cheered. A Salvation Army band tried to match its tootling against the drumming of the engines, gave it up. But the drummer, his eyes on the sky, thumped and rolled a theme for the scene: the da-da-da-daaa of the V-rhythm...
Trials went on of men suspected of a hand in the July attempt on Hitler's life. Dr. Carl Goerdeler, onetime Oberbürger-meister of Leipzig, and said to be the ringleader, was hanged with six others. One of them was Adam von Trott zu Solz, a Foreign Office man who had spent the summer trying to make Allied contacts in Stockholm. Trott had a plan for overthrowing Hitler, but he wanted assurance that Germans would be rewarded with something better than unconditional surrender. The Nazis talked of trying (and hanging) Hjalmar Schacht, passed sentence of death...
Bombs on Buchenwalde. According to Goebbels, Allied bombs fell on the Buchenwalde concentration camp near Weimar, killing Ernst Thälmann, pre-Hitler Communist leader, Dr. Rudolf Breitscheid, Social Democratic Prussian Minister of the Interior in the days of the Weimar Republic. According to the Allies, no raid was made on Weimar that day. According to neutrals, the Luftwaffe did the job, destroyed some 7,500 inmates. But few doubted that 58-year-old Thälmann, who polled five million votes for President in 1932 and has spent eleven years in concentration camps, was dead. Himmler's purge...
...Picasso, in his old attic studio in Paris' rue Saint Augustin, surrounded by pictures of blue women with square feet, declared that he had not only refused to collaborate with the Germans, said: "I even annoyed them." Said he: "They forbade my works to be shown because Hitler named me . . . decadent. But simple Nazi soldiers used to visit me. When they left I presented them with a souvenir postcard of my painting Guernica...
...Chicago Sun announced last week that it will henceforth print a box score of Colonel McCormick's hates. First box showed that on Sept. 6 the Tribune carried ten "hate" stories against President Roosevelt and the Administration; two against Sidney Hillman, the C.I.O. and P.A.C.; none against Hitler and the Nazis; none against Hirohito and the Japs...