Word: hitlerian
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Most awkward was the existence of the terror-stricken Jews themselves. Nightmares of the Hitlerian slaughter drove them on. In Poland sporadic anti-Jewish outbursts sped them. They filtered into the Allied-occupied zones of Germany...
Later, Ambassador Braden made a serious charge: "The recent campaign against myself and my country must have been instigated by foreign and Nazi elements. . . ." In a signed manifesto, 600 leading Argentines branded the anti-Braden campaign as an effort to "sow discord, mistrust . . . and hatred" in a Hitlerian fashion. Newspaper correspondents were even more forthright: they declared that Vice President Juan Domingo PerÓn had started the attack on Braden...
...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...