Word: hitler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...harsh challenge to the reputation of one of Washington's most powerful institutions-J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Boggs: "When the FBI taps the telephones of members of this body and members of the Senate, when the FBI adopts the tactics of the Soviet Union and Hitler's Gestapo, then it is time that the present director no longer be the director...
Next came Hitler's ostrich-skin wallet, which was stuffed with 37 pictures, two negatives of Eva Braun and a free ticket to a 1927 high school dance in Linz, Austria. A broker bought it for a Texas oilman. The price: $665. An autographed Hitler portrait went for $670. Hitler's 1927 membership card in an automobile club fetched $270. An elderly German paid $130 for a short shopping list (vegetable soup and cognac) that der Führer had written out for Munich's famed Dallmayr delicatessen...
...Here I have a cue card for an early Hitler speech," the auctioneer announced in his nasal Bavarian accent. "The words that Hitler penciled on it repeat the pattern to be followed in his harangue: 'November 1918-Criminals-The Political Situation Today-Our Irrevocable Demands-The Coming Elections-Our Candidates-Our Tactics-The Jews.' " Bidding in the stuffy auction room on Munich's fashionable Maximilianstrasse started briskly. The scruffy cue card was quickly knocked down to a broker acting on behalf of an anonymous British collector. Price...
Esoteric Impulses. All told, the Munich auction last week sold some five dozen Hitler souvenirs, all of them from the estate of the late Anny Winter, who was Hitler's housekeeper from 1929 to 1945. Anny's ardor for collecting just about anything Hitler touched netted her grandnephews a windfall...
...what was going down had nothing to do with curtailment of freedom of speech. It was a political rally, and there were more people on one side of the issue shouting louder than the people on the other. To use the overworked Nazi parallel, what if it had been Hitler? Would sitting quietly and giving him the finger be an adequate expression of our revulsion and rage? In many of us, representatives of current American policy in Indochina, the Third World and in our own backyard arouse no less fury, anguish and despair than Adolph. No one was physically prevented...