Word: hitlerize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus runs a significant passage in Mein Kampf, Germany's Gospel-According-to-Hitler, which, written in jail in 1924, has called every turn on European history since...
...lands of which Hitler thinks most are those rich agricultural and mining areas in Russia, Poland and Rumania peopled by Ukrainians. Rather than pick up these areas one by one in battle or by bluff, the Nazis would be better served if they could incite the Polish, Rumanian and Russian Ukrainians to form an independent state-which the Nazis, having promoted, would puppetize...
Meanwhile, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck made an official call on Führer Hitler at his Bavarian retreat. Timidly Diplomat Beck, who has his hands full trying to balance Poland on a tightrope between Nazi and French democratic influence, inquired into Germany's intentions toward his country...
...part, Herr Hitler ordered Nazi broadcasts aimed at Polish Ukrainians toned down, temporarily at least. On his part, Foreign Minister Beck was reported to have agreed to: 1) formal annexation by Germany of Danzig, already completely Nazified but still nominally under League of Nations supervision; 2) special status for the Germans in Memel, still part of Lithuania, but actually ruled by local Nazis directed from Berlin...
From a high-school civics book: "Dictatorship . . . makes much of national unity. . . . Convicts doing the lockstep in a prison yard are a perfect example of unity, but we do not envy them. . . . Hitler and Mussolini . . . talk much of the virtues which fascism fosters. . . . But fascism has no monopoly of courage and sacrifice...