Word: hitlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day the German nation read Freiburg's story in scare headlines: the French had bombed an open city, a peaceful university town. Eleven children, 46 others had been murdered. Hitler ranted that he could no longer hold to his pledge never to bomb an open city...
...Hitler wanted to launch an attack [on France] with all possible speed and recklessness. But he was hindered by the fact that he had taken a public position against the bombing of open cities...
...wicked magic of world events made Crowley's little orgies look tame. He resented it; he was envious. Said he: "Before Hitler was, I am." But it was no use. He became a fat, olive-skinned man with heavy jowls and mean little eyes which made him look like a stockbroker when the market is bad. He was crushed to hear himself described one day as "a rather harmless old gentleman...
...Ramsey Wurtele (rhymes with "fur tell"). U.S.N. (ret.), 54, pioneer in mechanized cane-farming; of a heart ailment; in Mix, La. Wurtele invented a mechanical cane-harvester, and developed a process for converting sugar into synthetic rubber, attracted wider attention in 1939 when he proposed a plan to appease Hitler by buying him Danzig and the Polish Corridor for $70 million (Wurtele offered...
...Chief of Counsel Robert Jackson. Throughout the trial Captain G. M. Gilbert, a U.S. psychologist, had access to the prisoners 24 hours a day. Nuremberg Diary, written from his daily notes, was the best composite picture of Göring & Co. Most persuasive of the speculations about Hitler was H. R. Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler, a skillful reconstruction, from evidence that was necessarily circumstantial but convincing, of the bunker Götterdämmerung. Those who thought there were no '"good" Germans might have changed their minds after reading Allen Welsh Dulles' Germany...