Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After victory in 1918, the British tore down the fortifications, but in spite of the protests of the proud, German-hating Frisians who lived on the island, Helgoland was left to Germany. By 1936, Hitler's tractors and bulldozers had moved in. Helgoland's receding shores (in 300 years four-fifths of the island had washed away) were buttressed with granite and bound with huge chains. Submarine pens with walls twelve feet thick, harbors, and eight miles of tunnels were built...
White-haired Princess Hermine, 59, widow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, did some reminiscing. "The Kaiser," she recalled, "was a wonderful man . . . very sad about the [second] war, and detested and distrusted Hitler." She herself was living in Frankfurt an der Oder in the Russian zone. She had "lost everything" except two tables and a chair, but she is still addressed by close friends as "Your Majesty...
...When Hitler came to power in 1933, a German Dominican named Father Leonard Roth quietly began to oppose him. Within two years, the Gestapo was making it so hot for Father Roth that he fled to Switzerland. In 1943, he slipped back into Germany to carry on his undercover fight against the Nazis. Almost before he knew it, he had landed in the Reich's most notorious concentration camp-Dachau. There he saw a guard beat two of his fellow priests to death...
Stauffenberg, the man chosen to do the dirty work, had tried at least twice before to kill Hitler. Other plotters had also tried. In March 1943, one almost succeeded by wrapping up a bomb and planting it in Hitler's airplane. The plane took off with Hitler aboard, but arrived at its destination safely. Reason: the bomb's firing pin had tripped, but the percussion...
...July 20 attempt failed for just as unpredictable reasons. The bomb exploded as planned (it was of the same type as the airplane bomb, timed not by telltale clockwork but by the action of acid on a taut wire). Also as planned, Hitler was in the room. At the moment of the explosion he was leaning on the map table under which the bomb had been planted. A few seconds before, however, someone had slightly shifted Stauffenberg's briefcase, so that, instead of lying practically at Hitler's feet, it lay behind a table leg. The day, moreover...