Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before another all-German denazification tribunal, foxy old Papen was making a belligerent defense. The prosecution contended that he had forged the Hindenburg will which aided Hitler's accession to power; Papen hotly denied it, later broke down and wept because "nobody would believe him." His prospects of acquittal were not noticeably brightened when a sympathizer's bomb exploded harmlessly in the office of the court's president, Camil Sachs...
...Munich, Heinrich Hoffman, Hitler's official photographer, admitted that he had realized a fortune of $800,000 from his Reich picture books, had even sold 10,000 photos of Hitler to the French during the occupation. Hoffman, who had aided the Allied prosecution at Nürnberg, got a ten-year sentence from his fellow Germans...
...appalling," grumbled H. G. Wells, "that this blinkered, pleasant, gossipy, gullible snob," Sir Samuel Hoare should be named British Ambassador to Spain. Wells was not the only one to wince. The nauseous memory of the Hoare-Laval Deal to appease Mussolini (1935) was still fresh. That of the Hitler-sweetening at Munich was even fresher. In 1940 Britain needed someone to talk straight, not sweet, to Spain's Franco. Sir Samuel hardly seemed the man. He had passed "from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin," said a wag, "without discernible effect upon his condition...
...hand at first "with nothing higher in it than a five of clubs." German prestige was boundless; German spies and informers were thick underfoot. A "very sinister" Turk named Lazar, attached to the German Embassy although he was a Jew, controlled the Spanish press. Seated before signed photographs of Hitler and Mussolini, Dictator Franco received the British envoy with polite disdain. "Why don't you end the war now?" Franco asked. "You can never...
...Franco been a little less sly, and Hitler and Mussolini a little less stupid, Spain would have joined the Axis, Sir Samuel believes. It was largely luck that Spain stayed out and pretended to be neutral-luck, plus Allied economic bait, plus the sympathies of a few Spaniards, notably Count Francisco Gomez Jordana, for two years (1942-44) Franco's Minister for Foreign Affairs...