Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Words. He cried: "July 20 [the day of the attempt on Hitler] represents the opposite of an indication of deteriorating morale. . . . We must pass through this hell of resistance, difficulties and dangers before we can come out into the open again at the end of the war and breathe the fresh air. There can be no doubt that we shall succeed. We must succeed, or else all of us are lost...
Apocalypse-Hitler, Himmler, Goring and Goebbels-now openly ruling as a Quadrumvirate, had launched the Reich on a careening toboggan that could only end in crackup...
...deep was the rift between the Nazis and the Officers' Corps? Most Germans did not know. The Nazis still withheld the names of all but four of the Wehrmacht officers who may have had a hand in the attempt on Hitler. But Dr. Goebbels did not hide the fact that Berlin's Guard Battalion had had to seize the Ministry of War in the Bendler-Strasse, where the Army High Command makes its headquarters, carry out impromptu executions in its courtyard...
...also a fact that Turkey's Ambassador to Berlin had come home, would not go back to Germany. But Hitler's envoy, wily Franz von Papen, instead of racing for Berlin, canceled a vacation, hotfooted to Ankara for a last-minute, bootless talk with Turkey's Premier and Foreign Minister, Sükrü Saracoglu. This move also gave Papen a chance to burn some papers, pack his bags...
Some of Ankara's rumors concerned Turkey's neighbor, Bulgaria. It was whispered that Sofia had asked Hitler to withdraw his two German divisions from Bulgaria, had hinted that it was time to make peace with the Allies. There was one report that Bulgaria and Turkey were discussing how to avoid hostilities, another to the effect that Turkey was planning to invade Bulgaria. Well might the Bulgarians worry. If the Turks were entering the war to fight, Bulgaria might become a Balkan battleground as Turkish armies attempted to smash their way up in the rear of groggy Rumania...