Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beauty in Bavaria. One reason for the exodus, explains a German realty salesman, is that "Hitler and the war isolated us from the world." Says he: "Living abroad gives us a liberating feeling of belonging again." In fact, Germans abroad fraternize little with foreigners, prefer as a rule to segregate themselves in Teuton-villes that, except for sea air and plentiful help, could be summer suburbs of Stuttgart. Many buy land abroad in order to dispose of "black capital," as they call unreported income. Others frankly seek out areas that German real estate ads describe as "far from any crisis...
...Unlike his up-from-the-factory colleagues, Rosenberg is a lifelong white-collar worker who became a union organizer more out of intellectual conviction than economic necessity, fled the Third Reich in 1933 and later helped the British Ministry of Labor find wartime jobs for thousands of refugees from Hitler. Returning to Germany, he concluded that free competition would best invigorate the West German economy, became foreign affairs chief of the union federation. One of the top-ranking of the surviving Jews in Germany, Rosenberg won out over old-line Marxists in the union...
...time when German armies, already masters of Europe and most of North Africa, stood poised for a thrust into Russia, Hess brought an offer of peace. Hitler, he said, would guarantee the integrity of the British Empire if England would recognize Germany's dominance in Europe. Drawing for the first time on all the old and new information about Hess's strange, ill-fated mission, Journalist-Historian James Leaser (The Red Fort, The Plague and the Fire) has produced an absorbing footnote to history...
...might well have happened in Hitler's Germany. Armed with arrogance, pistols and arrest warrants, special security police swooped down at night on the Bonn bureau of Der Spiegel (The Mirror), a weekly newsmagazine, and summarily carted staffers off to jail. In Der Spiegel's Hamburg headquarters, other police sealed off rooms, ransacked them with a thoroughness that included upturning the wastebaskets. In Torremolinos, Spain, about 1,300 miles away, local police, acting on an urgent request from West German authorities, routed a vacationing Spiegel subeditor and his wife from bed and locked them both behind bars...
...price of victory was high: 7,811 Allied casualties. Worse, the defense at Salerno revitalized the Germans, delighting Hitler and encouraging him to pour more German troops into Italy. What was expected to be a triumphal march north through a beaten Italy became a slogging, tortuous, year-long campaign that repeatedly stalled and finally sputtered to a stop just north of Florence, cost 350,000 Allied lives before it was over...