Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compared this attitude to a mock-serious resolution of students at Oxford University before World War II not to "fight for king and country"; Hitler took this as an indication of England's decadence and weakness," Chamberlain said, and was encouraged...
...fastest World War II submarines. Carrying a crew of 20, the U-1 is 145 ft. long, has eight torpedo tubes and a maximum permissible displacement of 350 tons (nonnuclear U.S. subs displace 1,750 tons). Although West Germany is now an ally, the NATO powers still recall that Hitler's submarine fleet nearly won him World War II by sinking 23 million tons of Allied shipping; NATO restricts the range of West German submarines so that they can be used in the Baltic and not for long-range service in the Atlantic...
Heiliger began his studies at the Berlin Academy in a bad year for German art: 1933, the year Hitler not only took over Germany but began to dictate to its artists. Heiliger was young, naive, and possessed of "the necessary skill to conform with the exaggerated realism the Nazis wanted." Fortunately, the Nazis still allowed a few top students to study abroad, and Heiliger was lucky enough to spend 18 months in Paris. There he met Sculptors Charles Despiau and Aristide Maillol, was elated by their preoccupation with the human figure. To Heiliger, nature, particularly the human figure...
...brought out all his mother's Francophilia. At one point, she commanded him to go to Berlin and assassinate Hitler. He prepared for the trip but she called it off. When he failed in his first effort to get a commission at flying school, he couldn't bear to tell her. Hadn't she already bragged about her officer son at every vegetable stall in Nice? So he told her that he had seduced the commanding officer's wife. She not only believed him; she was proud...
...well-to-do railway building contractor, Heimito von Doderer was born and has lived most of his life in Vienna, is considered Austria's most eminent novelist. He was a prisoner of war in Russia in World War I, fought in Hitler's Luftwaffe in World War II. Of his ten books of fiction and five other works, The Demons, meticulously translated by Richard and Clara Winston, is the first to see English...