Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are the snapshots Peter Stackpole picked up on the bloody beach of Saipan ( one shows a smiling, doll-like Japanese child waving the flag of Nippon) -and the stamp collection TIME Senior Editor Sidney Olson took from the knapsack of a Hitler youth who lay dead outside battered Nürnberg( " The Russians had already gone over him pretty thoroughly, but they won't take anything that has the swastika...
...most eyes were on the 200 soldiers. Each of them carried a captured German flag bedecked with captured German medals. Suddenly the massed band stopped blaring. Only hundreds of drums rumbled. As the 200 soldiers approached Lenin's tomb, they lowered the German flags (including Hitler's personal standard) and dragged them over the muddy cobblestones. In front of Lenin's tomb, the soldiers, without turning their heads or breaking step, tossed the flags into...
...declared that 10,000,000 Germans must share the guilt of Naziism, but it added: "We Communists declare that we also feel ourselves guilty, inasmuch as we were not able, in consequence of a series of mistakes, to force an anti-fascist unity of workers for the overthrow of Hitler." In view of the fact that in the past the German Communist Party had done everything possible to prevent an anti-fascist unity of the workers, this modest admission was a political necessity...
...Adolf Hitler's ex-bodyguard, Sepp Dietrich, strove mightily to please when questioned by Allied captors. Choice Dietrich characterizations of the old Hitler Gang...
...across the Swiss border in five thick notebooks strapped to her body beneath her skirts. Swiss guards mistakenly thought she was pregnant. According to her story, the Nazis offered her 100,000,000 gold lire ($5,000,000) for the diary. She said no. Later she offered it to Hitler and Mussolini in return for Ciano's life-and was refused. By the time the Chicago News and three competitors put in their bids, Ciano was dead, and Edda was in no condition to talk business. The News got the diary from Edda's Swiss lawyers...