Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers the hottest question of the 'week was not the atomic bomb but the merger of the armed services. It was so hot, in fact, that burly Admiral Jonas Ingram, commander of the Atlantic Fleet, angrily declared that the proposed single department was "too much in line with Hitler." The U.S. Army, favoring the merger, still had the offensive. The slower-moving, more conservative Navy, although it had had ample warning of the Army's intentions, had to fall back on denunciation while it looked around for more effective weapons...
...biggest jolt to German morale (which was only kept from going to pieces by the Nazis' iron fist) was delivered by the R.A.F. in three "city attacks" on Hamburg in the summer of 1943. There was "some indication . . . that Hitler thought that further attacks of similar weight might force Germany...
This generous outburst, a credit to British decency, swept Bevin and others of like mind into one historical error. When Bevin said of the Sudeten Germans and the Czechs that they "had lived together in perfect harmony until Hitler's stooges and agents broke up their democratic state," he was falling back on the old, dubious view that Hitler's' New Order had been the work of only a few Nazi gangsters. The 3,000,000 Sudeten Germans, now joining Europe's miserable displaced millions, had risen in a mass to betray the Czechs...
Professor Rand pointed out that Hitler's program for Germany represented "a patent threat to the spirit and form of our government and to the whole American way of life...
...determination to foster a demagogic, nationalistic, anti-democratic setup in Argentina, Strong Man Perón was, in his own words, playing "a daring game." For he had only a part of the army, the police, the politically inert peones, and a frowsy minority of labor behind him. Unlike Hitler and Mussolini, he could count on neither capitalists nor the middle class for backing...