Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were in custody. The exception was Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy and closest adviser in the final days. Contradictory reports that Bormann had or had not been found continued to fly between the Allied capitals...
...citizens of Rüsselsheim, had lynched the fliers in a spasm of revenge. The court's verdict: freedom for one defendant, long imprisonment for three, death for seven. Among them: Frau Witzler. She was an old woman; she must have been a big girl when Adolf Hitler, the Führer, was born...
...Times: for 13 years he covered Vienna for them, for four years was their bureau chief. But the name on the door of a second little cubbyhole office he used was changed frequently. First it was the London Times; then in succession London's Express and Telegraph. As Hitler rose to power, Gedye's impassioned warnings fell painfully on British ears...
...Musa Dagh, Embezzled Heaven, The Song of Bernadette and the yet-unpublished Star of the Unborn), playwright (Jacobowsky and the Colonel), refugee U.S. resident since 1940; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Werfel, whose Forty Days was burned by the Nazis, fled Vienna and Paris two jumps ahead of Hitler's hordes, took refuge in Lourdes, France, where he heard of the vision of the little French Catholic girl, Bernadette Soubirous, and vowed to sing "her song" if he ever escaped. It became his biggest hit, as a movie won five Academy Awards...
When the prisoners were asked to vote whether English should be a "must" course, two out of three voted yes. But the camp's officials are never too sure that prisoners are not just currying favor. In one written examination, 82% of the prisoners named Hitler as history's greatest tyrant; Nero, Napoleon and Hirohito were way behind. Says the present camp commander, Captain Alfred C. Johnson: "We can be sure only that our experiment in education is doing no harm...