Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 1940 came the fateful disagreement over the postwar swag. Stalin demanded bases on the Dardanelles and staked his claim on the Persian Gulf area as "the center of the aspirations of the Soviet Union." Hitler balked. The next month he issued his directive for "Operation Barbarossa": "to crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign...
Much of the unlovely story had been told before,† but last week, for the first time, the U.S. State Department published the record in full: 357 pages of captured German documents describing the course of Stalin's deals with Hitler. Some memorable landmarks...
...August 1939, after the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact which freed Hitler for his war against the West, Stalin toasted Adolf Hitler: "I know how much the German nation loves its Führer; I should therefore like to drink to his health...
While Clay spoke Germany was shaken by the biggest strikes since pre-Hitler days. The walkouts protesting food shortages, which had started in the Ruhr (TIME, Jan. 26), shifted to Bavaria; more than a million Germans in 26 cities and scores of towns laid down their tools...
...strike wave had some ugly breakers. In N&252;rnberg, 30,000 workers jammed the former Adolf Hitler Platz, where they listened to nationalist harangues beneath signs proclaiming: WE DEMAND GERMAN UNITY. In a Frankfurt movie theater, when a newsreel showed the American Friendship Train carrying food to Germany's neighbors, the audience yelled: "The Americans will let us starve. Let them go to hell...