Word: hitlerian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last trip, from Berlin to Flensburg to the north German moors, his shadow caught up with him. Heinrich Himmler, whom his fellow Nazis had ironically nicknamed "gentle Heinrich," had shaved his Hitlerian mustache, replaced his scholarly pince-nez with a black eye patch. He had become Herr Hitzinger. His papers were in perfect order. He loved order...
Said the Politburo's statement: "The Communist Party can in no way be associated with decisions aimed at disarming the people in the face of a Hitlerian fifth column which is left intact and powerfully armed. ... All Communists will act in the sense indicated by the Bureau, and they will do everything in their power to widen and consolidate the union of the French resistance movement...
Credit for victory went to the planner: General Leonid Govorov, plump, short, middleaged, with unruly hair and a Hitlerian mustache. In 1940 this artillery expert helped to open a corridor into Leningrad, broke the Germans' partial blockade but did not-as accounts at the time wrongly indicated-actually free the city. Until this month, German shells tore daily into Leningrad's brick-and-mortar flesh, and its defenders rode to the front in streetcars. More than a million had died of cold and hunger since Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's army first besieged the city...
During the interlude between the two world wars, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi spent his time traveling about Europe organizing Pan-European units. For a time things looked propitious. But the depression and the sudden rise of Hitlerian National Socialism in Germany wrote finis to the Count's hopes. Throughout the '30s the Pan-European Union fought a rearguard action, trying to rally good nationalists to a program that would result in an effective encirclement of Hitler...
...professor of History, stressed the fallacy of thinking that all Germans are alike. "To think of the Germans as having a double does of original sin is to make the Hitlerian mistake on race." he said. In accordance with his faith in some of the Nordies, Fay outlined as a post-war educational policy the working with those "who would cooperate" first and then spreading out over all of Germany...