Word: hitlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confusing record shows that Pastor NiemÖller: 1) approved of Hitler from 1924 to 1933; 2) volunteered, but was turned down, for the German Navy in World War II; 3) spent eight years in concentration camps for anti-Nazi activities...
Falling Concern. Western Europe's economy (and possibly her hopes for political democracy) hinged on making the Ruhr a going concern. In a peak pre-Hitler year (1929), Germany sent half her exports to western Europe, including Britain and Scandinavia, and most of these came from the great Ruhr basin. The western European steel industry depended on Ruhr coke; Dutch and Belgian ports depended on Ruhr traffic. In a single year the Ruhr produced 128,000,000 tons of coal, 16,000,000 tons of steel, 13,000,000 tons of pig iron. War-ravaged Britain Had neither...
Dunes & Nudes. From the day he first spotted a swastika, Grosz lashed out at the Nazis. His prophetic cartoons of Hitler's ends & means made him No. 1 on the Nazi list of "degenerate" artists. In 1932, Grosz skipped to the U.S. with his wife and two children...
...small chunk of Hitler's art collection went on view in Washington's National Gallery last week: 48 canvases by 16th and 17th Century Dutch artists. They were part of an elaborate bread-&-butter letter the Dutch Government had written the U.S. Hitler had "collected" most of the paintings from a Jewish-owned art house-Goudstikker of Amsterdam:-for a museum in memory of his mother. (He assumed that all the North European paintings he liked must necessarily be "German" in inspiration.) U.S. soldiers rediscovered the Dutch loot among 4,000 paintings hidden in a salt mine...
With Russian artillery thundering behind them, the rocket men packed up everything they could move, and fled through the chaos of collapsing Germany. A few had gone south (on Hitler's orders) toward the "Alpine Stronghold"; the rest fought their way over bomb-battered highways and railroads to a small town near Nordhausen...