Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That policy failed. Naziism could not be synthesized. One night in October 1938, a plane whisked Dr. Benes into exile. He was lecturing on democracy at the University of Chicago when word came, five months later, of Hitler's march into Czechoslovakia. For a day he lay on a couch in a darkened room, in a stillness as of death. Next morning, resolute and reinvigorated, he plunged into the task of keeping the Republic alive in exile...
...chinned General Anton Dostler, 54, got a hearing. Before a U.S. military commission convened in Rome's Palace of Justice, the General said Ja, he had ordered the O.S.S. men shot. They wore no insignia, had turned their field jackets inside out. A Führerbefehl (order from Hitler) had decreed death for captured commandos and saboteurs. When junior officers protested, he countermanded his order, asked higher-ups what to do. Field Marshal General Albert Kesselring's headquarters said shoot the captives; after that, he had no alternative...
Aware that they were setting a momentous precedent (see INTERNATIONAL), the five U.S. officers serving as commissioners mulled the question of responsibility. But if they forgave Dostler for following orders, the only war criminal left would be Hitler. When they had decided, grave-faced Corporal Albert Hirschman of the O.S.S. translated the verdict for impassive General Dostler: "To be shot to death by musketry...
...Adolf Hitler, onetime world's foremost book-banner, became a banned author in Germany. A German "sifting committee" blacklisted Mem Kampf, also hung verboten signs on the works of Historian Oswald Spengler, Novelist Knut Hamsun, Explorer Sven Hedin, some 2,000 other writers...
...Francis Williams became editor of the Herald. He built its circulation to 2,000,000, second only to Beaverbrook's Daily Express. He put statistics together to prove that Hitler was rearming-and soon Conservative Winston Churchill was quoting Williams to the bumbling Baldwin government...