Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divisions which Hitler had in France and the Low Countries three months ago, 15 have been destroyed. 15 badly mauled; the rest are in peril. East, west and south, the Allies will probably cut down many more divisions before finally contracting their grip on the central Nazi fortress...
Dreary Epilogue? Were Nazi babblings of "peace terms" and "withdrawal" a smokescreen?-another desperate stall for time? One thing was certain. Hitler & Co. were still on top, arid so long as they stayed on top there could be no peace. Heinrich Himmler was preparing a fanatical home army to fight the final battle between the Oder and the Rhine, and to fight on as guerrillas after the last battle was lost. The Allies, east and west, needed to get into Germany as soon as possible, to upset these preparations before they became effective. Otherwise the war might drag...
Auloch was the only hero the Nazis had to extol in all the Normandy-Brittany campaign and they made the most of him. Berlin recited his final message to Adolf Hitler: "Further resistance had to cease as a result of lack of food." It trumpeted the Führer's reply: "Your name will go down in history forever...
...outstanding Soviet success of the week was achieved below Warsaw on the Vistula, where wily, leathery Marshal Konev captured the important rail town of Sandomierz, destroyed the Nazi garrison of three divisions, enlarged his bridgehead across the Vistula to 1,600 square miles. Adolf Hitler was said to have called Konev's position "a pistol pointed at the German empire...
Groaned Correspondent Montgomery: "The war [in Germany] will go on-underground. Allied military patrols will be ambushed . . . administrators assassinated . . . commanders will die mysteriously. . . . Hitler and the Nazis-particularly Himmler-have learned from their own bitter experience how effective the underground resistance...