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Word: hitlerized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September, he enticed Britain's aging, fatuous Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Munich. There the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany as the price of "peace in our time." In March 1939, Hitler occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia. A few days later, he took Memel from Lithuania. In April he made territorial demands on Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Betrayer | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...Hitler is today lying dead on a street in Berlin, like Benito Mussolini on a sidewalk in Milan, there will be few people in Germany who will be mourning his passing. The few will be the Nazi Party's fanatic core who still believe in Naziism, and for that belief and for the sake of their own lives fight on. A growing majority of Germans, however, are looking on Adolf Hitler today with bitterness and angry despair as the man who gambled them and their lives away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Betrayer | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...that this war was unnecessary and wrong. But they still don't go beyond that to the salient realization that Naziism and everything that went with it was wrong. The main reason the war seems wrong to them is because they lost it. They place the blame on Hitler because he got them into it; if he had won the war few people in Germany today would be concerned with the question of whether the war was right or wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Betrayer | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...Judging by present appearances, it does not seem likely that Adolf Hitler will go down in German history as a martyred leader. All last week the radio was propagandizing him as the nation's military and spiritual leader fighting at the head of his troops in Berlin. Nobody I met was in any way impressed. But when rumors circulated that the Fiihrer had been killed iri Berlin, Germans began to stop Allied soldiers on the streets to ask them if it was true. What they were concerned about, however, was not whether Hitler was alive or dead. What they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Betrayer | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...German people, as for the rest of the world, the end of World War II would bring-had already brought-one tremendous, if negative, good: the end of the monstrous historical lie embodied in Naziism and its perverted practices. Hitler, if he were still able to wonder what his historical function had been as everything crumbled, might say with Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust: I am Ein Teil -von jener Kraft, Die stets das Base will und stets das Gute schafft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Betrayer | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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