Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was only one of the sectors where Adolf Hitler had hoped to use his military intuition to gain time for Germany, to make the Allies wear themselves out, to set the stage for a negotiated peace, perhaps meantime to develop some kind of a devastating new weapon that might still...
There was another sector on the west, where the Allied beachhead in Normandy hung in stalemate and German skill seemed to be accomplishing something. Then came the breakthrough: Brittany was lost, a steel-tipped javelin poised to hurl at Paris, heart of Germany's western defenses. Nor could Hitler find any comfort in the south. There nothing was left except a weary German army, fighting in Northern Italy-where it might yet be trapped...
While Allied leaders cried to their people that the war had not yet been won, that production must go on, no man could miss the signs of impending crackup. All in all, it was a fitting week for Winston Churchill to pay his sardonic respects to Adolf Hitler...
...well be that the Russian successes have been somewhat aided by the strategy of Corporal Hitler. Even military idiots find it difficult not to see some faults in some of his actions. ... On the whole I think it is better for officers to rise in the proper...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...