Word: hitleritis
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...once word came, the Germans were fatefully slow to respond. Hitler jealously controlled the armored regiments, and his aides were reluctant to wake him up before 9:30. Had the Luftwaffe been there to rain fire on the beaches, had the weather turned worse rather than better, had Rommel stayed on the scene or had Hitler sent his tanks, it is entirely conceivable that the whole landing force could have died on those beaches or been forced to turn back. As it was, at one point Lieut. General Omar Bradley, hearing of the carnage of Omaha Beach, said he feared...
...dawn carried a copy of General Eisenhower's "Order of the Day," which declared that they had embarked on "the Great Crusade." By the end of that day, thousands would be dead, yet by then few would question whether the price had been worth paying for the prize of Hitler's defeat...
...where the troops of the 101st were preparing to load onto C-47s for their flight to Normandy. He told the men not to worry because they had the best leaders and equipment. One of them looked at him and said, "Hell, General, we ain't worried. It's Hitler's turn to worry." "That spirit," Bush told the soldiers, "carried the American soldier across Europe to help liberate a continent. It's the same spirit that carried you across Iraq to set a nation free...
...advocates of war sat comfortably on Sunday morning talk shows promising that the invasion of Europe would be a cakewalk. The plan was not obvious, not safe or certain. And it was a gamble for colossal stakes. However much the Allies had gained since the worst months of 1941, Hitler might yet have survived to cut a deal that left him in charge of most of Europe. After Eisenhower watched the first troop convoys preparing to depart, he scribbled a note to himself, what he would say if the worst happened: "Our landings ... have failed ... The troops...
...century, culminating in Albert Einstein as Person of the Century. I oversaw the first installment, Leaders and Revolutionaries, and I still remember the heated debates about whether we should pick Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan (the Gipper won out) and whether Joseph Stalin should join the list with Adolf Hitler (he didn't make...