Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under a 1953 Allied agreement, Krupp was ordered to divest himself of 74 per cent of his holdings. This was to insure against the resurrection of a combine that had helped build Hitler's war machine...
Released by Hitler in 1944 in the hope that he would rouse the Ukrainian populace to fight the advancing Russians, Bandera set up headquarters in Berlin, while Ukrainian partisans once again fought both the Wehrmacht and the Red army in a vain effort to carve a free Ukraine out of the confusion at war's end. To avoid Russian agents, he fled to West Germany in 1945, but shuttled back and forth in various disguises between Munich and the Ukraine, bringing encouragement and funds to the partisan army, which fought on for four more years before being finally subdued...
...birthday letter to his colleague, Hanns Lilje, Bishop of Hannover. And he said it in a form to which Germans are especially sensitive: a discussion of the text in St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 13:1 that has sometimes been blamed for Christian docility to Hitler-"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance...
...doughboys who had gone to war ill prepared, Colonel Marshall argued bitterly against the prospect of more unpreparedness. Fatefully, when the first flames of the new European conflict sputtered to life, he was a brigadier general in the War Plans Division in Washington. On Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler smashed into Poland, President Roosevelt jumped Marshall over 34 higher-ranking officers to Chief of Staff and four-star rank, handed him the job of getting an unprepared nation ready for war. Battling divided public opinion and an isolationist Congress, Marshall stubbornly, coldly, turned a sparsely trained Army of about...
...Hitler Germany's greatest stars, "Lisl" Bergner fled the country in 1933, scored a series of brilliant U.S. and British stage and screen successes (Stolen Life, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Escape Me Never, Catherine the Great). But in the years just after the war, the Hollywood magic somehow gave out; Bergner appeared in a succession of stage flops, finally retired to London with her husband. Film Producer Paul Czinner. Last week's performance proved that her retirement had been premature...