Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police president of Munich, Ernst Pöhner, by proper exercise of the legal powers vested in him, might have halted the back-alley rowdyisms of Hitler and his followers...
...Hitler Is Lost." Schuman was born (1886) in Luxembourg, of an old Lorraine family. When Germany annexed Alsace-Lorraine in 1871, his family automatically became German, and Robert was German, technically, until his 33rd birthday. In school, he displayed a redoubtable memory. Said one of his teachers: "That boy will end by editing an encyclopedia...
...argument." Later he managed to escape by masquerading as a French schoolteacher, hid out in various French monasteries. He spoke a few times before refugee groups. One night, in the crypt of a big Lyon church, he told the Bishop of Metz and 1,500 fellow Lorrainers: "Hitler is lost! You may be sure of that." After that, the Nazis put a price on his head. Friends who knew him before the war now find him subtly changed. Schuman, the Premier, has more warmth than Schuman, the lawyer...
Author Marks is a bit more skeptical of hypnotism's pure power for good. He reports some hypnotic cures, but links them with faith healing. He also thinks that phenomena like the appeal of such different people as Hitler and Sinatra can be explained by mass hypnotism...
...French army officer and wife of another, she has given up her family and her marriage and stood up proudly to the criticism and contempt of the conservative villagers, all to win and keep Ferdl Eder's "blond alien flesh." Eder had lost his country when Hitler took Austria. When he wanted to visit his family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal of her love. She persuaded him to tear up his passport. Then came the war: France considered him an enemy alien...