Word: hitleritis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German loudspeaker units played French music across No Man's Land at the French lines. When they switched to peace overtures and Adolf Hitler's speeches, the French fired at the loudspeakers...
...French experts estimated the troops massed by Adolf Hitler from the North Sea to Switzerland as follows...
...Wells then proceeded to quote a "trial statement of the rights of man, brought up to date," which he and friends had drafted. The wording was carefully aimed at German hearts and heads, to persuade them that Great Britain claims for Germans more than Adolf Hitler is giving them. Excerpts...
...prize was ticketed for Professor Gerhard Domagk of Germany, who first showed the efficacy of prontosil (forerunner of the miracle-drug sulfanilamide) in treating streptococcal infections. The Nobel committee thus serenely ignored Adolf Hitler's ban on Nobel Prizes for Germans, wrathfully decreed by the Führer after the 1935 Peace Prize was awarded to tuberculous Pacifist Carl von Ossietsky, whom the Nazis had under heel in a concentration camp. Last week Professor Domagk discreetly referred to his Government the question of what to do about his award, murmured: "Even if I don't receive the money...
...home, Weeping Willie had not been sacked, but he had a back seat while BBC took off its kid gloves, permitted anti-German cracks, digs at British home policy. Comic Tommy Handley twitted censorship with references to the Office of Twerps, the Ministry of Irritation, was a scream lampooning Hitler, whose mustache he once compared to a splash from a passing taxi. Most telling BBC Hitler-baiter : Band Waggon's little Arthur Askey, cooking up ingenious schemes for pestering a certain Mr. Nasty. Sample: Plotting to train 5,000 parrots to fly over old Nasty's House...