Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were electing a Bürgermeister. Up for re-election was Franz Czisch, a 40-year-old grocer and Christian Democrat whom the Nazis had once expelled from law school as a "half-Jew." Opposing him, on a no-party ticket, was Franz Konrad, Bürgermeister under Hitler, twice denazified by his neighbors...
...Adolf Hitler felt fairly confident about the future. He sent an order to Sweden for grey granite; he planned a giant victory monument in Berlin...
These were moving symbols to the Jews of Warsaw. But what they liked best, perhaps, was the shining granite that sheathed the monument's wall: it was some of the Swedish granite that Adolf Hitler had ordered for his monument in Berlin...
...Hitler demanded a German victory in the 1936 Olympic games, and got it. He also demanded a film record of the victory for propaganda purposes, and got more than that. Olympische Spiele, produced by Hitler's favorite moviemaker, redheaded Leni Riefenstahl (and some 600 technicians), turned out to be a magnificent documentary film...
When World War II broke out, he was interned at Bad Nauheim along with other U.S. correspondents-but with special privileges. He refused repatriation, telling colleagues that he could serve as a mediator after Hitler won the war. Then he joined William ("Lord Haw Haw") Joyce, since hanged for treason, and the American Douglas Chandler, now appealing a life sentence for treason,* in the Nazi propaganda service...