Word: hitlerize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accompanied by Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, and Heinrich Himmler, Chief of Secret Police, Victor Hitler drove through the wreckage to a reviewing stand set up in the least damaged part of the city, the diplomatic sector. There he stood from 12:30 until 2:30 as picked troops goose-stepped past...
...great that efficiency was Adolf Hitler last week revealed in his speech to the members of the Reichstag. "As I am now about to make known to you the number of our dead and wounded," he said, "I request that you rise from your seats. . . . According to the casualty list of up to the soth of September 1939, which will not change materially, the total losses for the Army, Navy and Air Force, including officers, are as follows: 10,572 killed; 30,322 wounded; 3,404 missing. Unfortunately, of those missing a certain number who fell into Polish hands will...
Last week war in Poland had its official end as Adolf Hitler flew to Warsaw. He arrived at the city, left it thoughtful. For what Adolf Hitler saw as he drove into town was a city which he, artist by ambition, architect of a Chancellery and an eagle's nest, had designed-a city of charred wrecks, broken windows, gutted streets, tram rails bent into tortured question marks...
...require courage to stand there exposed to danger from those who hated him? No, it did not. Not one Pole saw Herr Hitler; Herr Hitler saw not one Pole. Troops with bayonets kept every native at least a block from the Victor, and previously police had scoured houses along his route for "suspicious elements...
After the review Herr Hitler reverently visited Belvedere Palace, where the great Josef Pilsudski lived and died. Back at the airport Hitler proved that what had made him thoughtful had not made him either remorseful or humble-or accurate. "Gentlemen," he said to a cluster of reporters, "you have seen for yourselves what criminal folly it was to try to defend this city in a military way, and how that defense collapsed after only two days. I only wish certain statesmen in other countries who seem to want to turn the whole of Western Europe into such a shambles...