Word: hitlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With sweeping scorn, Jackson tackled their common excuse that only Hitler was to blame. "The defendants may have become slaves of a dictator, but he was their dictator. . . . They were the Praetorian Guard, and while they were under Caesar's orders, Caesar was always in their hands. ... If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say . . . there are no slain. . . ." In his opening speech eight weary months ago, Jackson had boldly raised the question of the trial's moral and legal basis. He avoided that overriding issue...
Silently, seriously, Austria's Parliament met in its badly bombed white building near what was lately called the Adolf Hitler Platz. Representatives of one of the weakest nations in Europe, they nevertheless held their ground while Figl read to them what amounted to a Russian attempt to dictate Austrian legislation. The Parliament had before it Figl's bill to nationalize 81 industries, amounting to 50% of the country's production. The Russian note asked for 25 exceptions on the ground that they were "German assets" and therefore could be seized by Russia under the Potsdam agreement...
Europeans remembered him as the great pre-Hitler conductor of the Berlin State Opera. Some Americans remembered his six-year success with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but more remembered sensational newspaper headlines about...
...despite these racy blessings, the novel is dull going. Diligently describing the European stew in Hitler's first year, whole pages are devoted to such passages as this: "In every issue touching monetary policy, disarmament, and the consolidation of world peace, it appears that Great Britain ... is less and less willing to take any step except with the full agreement of the United States. ... I find myself in complete agreement with Great Britain...
Haven't we all learned from letting Hitler march into the Ruhr, from Munich, from many another failure that the best way to get into a big war is to go too far in trying to avoid a smaller...