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Word: hitlers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considerably because they spoke German." German divisions were moved up to Poland's western border. On their part, the Poles ordered Polish Nazis to take off their distinctive white socks, and moved new divisions into place opposite the German Army concentrations. In Danzig itself, newspapers reported that Adolf Hitler would be made an honorary citizen of the Free City on his birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birthday Present? | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Three days before the Hitler birthday, the Danzig crisis took an apparent turn for the better. A "deal" was reported in the making, whereby Poland would voluntarily give Danzig to Germany. The Germans were said, in any case, to be planning no invasion of Danzig across Polish soil: to save Poland's face, the invasion would come from adjoining East Prussia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birthday Present? | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Britain's Neville Chamberlain schemed feverishly last week to stave off further German aggression, the world wondered where Adolf Hitler would next strike. The Dutch were afraid they knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dynamite in the Dikes | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Germany would then be on the Channel and nearer to England. The Belgian Maginot Line might be outflanked. If, however, Herr Hitler is thinking of the disadvantages of a Netherlands coup, they would overshadow the advantages. There would be 230 more miles of western frontier to defend. The Belgians have heavily fortified their frontier with The Netherlands, and invasion through The Netherlands to the ultimate goal of France and Paris is a circuitous route to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dynamite in the Dikes | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...ignored by Queen Elena. Moreover, it was Count Galeazzo Ciano and the scheming Edda who were personally active in bringing Italy into the German alliance, and who have since been working for a social revolution in Italy along the lines of the Nazi one in Germany. Before Adolf Hitler came into power, Benito Mussolini was willing to let things in Italy go on pretty much as they had always been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: King's Crisis | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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