Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Telephone and wire services to neutral countries were cut off. Airplane flights to neutral Sweden and Switzerland were interrupted. For hours the fate of Hitler and of Germany, which was in some degree the fate of every man, woman & child in the world, was shrouded behind an invisible, hermetic barrier...
...Nation. Seven hours later Hitler himself spoke on the air. He said: "German men and women: . . . If I address you today* I am doing so for two reasons: first, so that you shall hear my voice and know that I personally am -It was 12:59 a.m., Berlin Time. unhurt and well and, second, so that you shall hear the details of a crime that has no equal in German history...
Reich Marshal Hermann Goring and Admiral Karl Doenitz spoke after Hitler...
...Executed were: 1) bomb-tossing Colonel Graf Claus von Stauffenberg, member of Hitler's own personal staff since he lost his right arm and eye in Tunisia; 2) Colonel General Ludwig Beck, onetime Chief of Staff, who fought Hitler's intuition in 1938, had since been in retirement. D.N.B. reported: "He is no longer among living beings...
...bomb killed three of the men around Hitler. They were: Hitler's alleged double Heinrich Bergner, General Günther Korten, Chief of Air Force General Staff, Major General Heinz Brandt...