Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turning from the false leadership of those who have been styled 'Southern liberals'-they are turning from those who have preached the tolerance of intolerance, tolerance of segregation, tolerance of murderous Jim Crow. They are learning that such men are only slightly to the left of Hitler and Rankin...
Generalissimo Winter. "Even Hitler didn't get crowds like this," I heard a grey little man in shirtsleeves murmur to his friend. Indeed, it was a crowd worthy of this highest German superlative. The 300,000 blanketed the whole rubble-strewn area before the Reichstag, choked every path through the Tiergarten, stood in neat, tight ranks between rows of planted cabbages in the little garden plots. A hot sun beat on the crowd; the air was heavy with sweat and whirls of dust from the sandy earth and the odor of cheap tobacco. A seven-year-old girl whimpered...
...bourgeoisie (his father was a minor Czarist official), Zhdanov had spent his life fighting his father's kind. Historians would remember that he had been a leading advocate of the Hitler-Stalin pact, that he had sparked the 1939-40 war against Finland, directed the defense of Leningrad against the German invasion, conducted the ideological purge of writers, artists, musicians, philosophers and scientists, founded the Cominform, and led the attack on Tito. Muscovites, however, were more likely to remember him for his funeral. It was the most pompous display the city had seen since Lenin was laid away...
...Czechoslovakia created by Benes and his great chief, Thomas Masaryk, was by far the best of the little states. It was not good enough. Hitler accurately took its measure-and the measure of the great nations. Before Munich, Hitler had screamed: "Benes ... In that name is concentrated all that which today moves millions, which causes them to despair or fills them with a fanatical resolution. The decision now lies in his hands: Peace or War." Benes thought so, too. Later he wrote: "I had to decide whether to provoke the war or not . . ." He chose not to. Once again...
...went back, trusting in the Russians as firmly as he had trusted in France and Britain. The Russians, too, betrayed his optimism. When Klement Gottwald demanded power, Benes might have stopped him, but only at the risk of civil war. Benes gave in to him, as he had to Hitler...