Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Significantly, there was one thing that the pollsters did not find: any American who advocated, even in the privacy of an anonymous dialogue, that the U.S. use its secret bombs as a Hitler or a Tojo would certainly have used them. Americans, precariously holding the bomb's precarious secret, were more afraid of it than any have-not nation had reason...
Earlier in the week the defendants enjoyed themselves, nudging each other and laughing as documents and films recount ed their days of power. Rudolf Hess applauded Hitler on the screen. Former Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop wept, watching Hitler in a screaming speech and in an aside to U.S. Army Major Douglas Kelley, court psychiatrist, said: "Can't you just feel Hitler's tremendous personality? For us it was the most fearfully stimulating thing that has ever happened in our lifetime...
...decoding messages from Japan's Ambassador Oshima in Berlin, often reporting interviews with Hitler, given our forces invaluable information on German war plans...
Belched Danube. Their first big seller, in 1942, was the Hitler lampoon, Der Führer's Face. When it sold a phenomenal 1,500,000 records, Spike took the City Slickers on a road tour. Recalls Spike: "We were too corny for sophisticated people, and too sophisticated for corny people." But by the end of the tour, collectors and radio disc-jockeys were calling for more. He set about deflating some of Tin Pan Alley's more pretentious tunes. The City Slickers played Chloe straight, with all the tom-toms and jungle mating cries that everybody else...
...firing squad in Aversa, Italy last week. General Anton Dostler was shot because he had ordered the execution of 15 American soldiers who were captured behind German lines in March 1944 while trying to blow up a railroad tunnel. Dostler's defense was that he acted on Hitler's orders. The court held that, even with explicit instructions from above, to shoot uniformed men without trial is against the code...