Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adolf Hitler's newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, said it was "out of the question" to send reinforcements to France...
...This week Seydlitz' former commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, silent since his capture at Stalingrad, declared: "The war is lost for Germany. . . . Because of the state and military leadership of Hitler ... the war has been transformed into a senseless bloodshed...
...Hitler himself once confided to Hermann Rauschning that the Brown Shirts were bandy-legged incompetent rabble...
...Adolf Hitler's name was prominent-said radio reports-on leaflets secretly distributed throughout Germany. They offered ten marks (40?) for Hitler's capture, were signed Karl Goerdeler (see FOREIGN NEWS)-the fugitive mayor of Leipzig, on whose head after the recent anti-Nazi bomb plot the Gestapo set a price of 1,000,000 marks...
...intent of some of the moves was clear only to such actual players as Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, Pope Pius XII. But two situations on the great board were of far-reaching importance: 1) the developing internal crisis of Germany (see below) which might change the course of the whole game and lead to new, startling combinations of power politics; 2) the meeting in Rome of one of Europe's shrewdest chess players (Marshal Tito) and Britain's outstanding political-landscape painter (Winston Churchill). The meeting might be the opening gambit in new plays for power in Italy...