Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made Pius XII particularly sad was the thought of his sheep fighting each other: 37,900,000 German Catholics (21,000,000 of 67,000,000 pre-Hitler Germans, plus 6,100,000 Austrian souls, plus 10,800,000 in Czecho-Slovakia) pitted against 23,000,000 devout Poles-just about his stanchest followers anywhere...
...shows of hands which took just two minutes to call and count, the Supreme Soviet "unanimously approved" the Hitler-Stalin deal...
...Said Herr Hitler three years ago in N?g: "If I had the Ural Mountains, if we possessed Siberia, if we had the Ukraine, then Nazi Germany would be swimming in prosperity" (TIME, Sept...
Finally, said he, Stalin's men became convinced that Britain and France were actually encouraging Poland to reject Red Army aid! And they were trying to sick Russia on Germany by pretending that Hitler threatened to annex the Ukraine...
Significance. For the moment Stalin's interest is to keep the Red Army sitting on Russia's western marches until Hitler smashes Poland thoroughly. When that happens, if Hitler restores Germany's 1914 borders, Stalin might get some fat slices of pre-War Russia just for sitting still. And best of all, Stalin might achieve the Tsarist dream of owning Constantinople and the Dardanelles...