Word: hitlering
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...stood for Schutzstaffel, meaning protective echelon, or, as commonly translated, elite guard. The organization grew out of a small group of thugs recruited in 1923 to protect Hitler, and was originally the security arm of the Nazi Party. When it came under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler in 1929, the SS began to expand; by the war's end almost 1 million men had passed through its ranks. The Waffen combat units were formed in the late 1930s. It was members of the Totenkopf ("Death Head") SS who served as guards and executioners at the concentration camps, wearing black caps...
...hrer, I congratulate you," said Hitler's dwarfish Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, who had just ordered champagne. "Roosevelt is dead! It is written in the stars that the second half of April will be the turning point...
...Only a few weeks ago, a Soviet soldier in East Germany shot and killed a U.S. military officer for trespassing. Perhaps V-E day requires a more sober and moderate reaction than celebration. There are things simply to consider: the selfless heroism of the millions who fought to prevent Hitler's onslaught; the cooperation of proud powers in a right and necessary cause. As a practical lesson, one must also consider how quickly and easily the world allowed a madman to seize it by the throat...
...making the inevitable an accomplished fact kept taking thousands of lives. Hitler's last big offensive, the Battle of the Bulge, crashed through U.S. lines in the snow-covered Ardennes Forest just before Christmas of 1944. When the battle was over, the Germans had suffered more than 100,000 casualties, the Allies 81 ,000. From then on, the German retreat never really stopped. U.S. forces seized the Remagen bridge and swarmed across the Rhine in March. Frankfurt fell, then Karlsruhe. The Soviets took Vienna on April...
...Hitler by now lived and worked entirely underground, in a hidden mausoleum known as the Führerbunker. Dug in next to the Reich Chancellery in central Berlin, the bunker was nearly 60 ft. below street level; its earth-covered roof was 16 ft. thick (but leaky). It had 30 rooms, their concrete walls painted battleship gray. A staff of about 500 came and went. Here the Führer ate, slept, gave orders, shouted, raged. "Hitler never saw another sunrise or sunset after January," said an aide...