Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achieve that, France merely dropped its two-year opposition to devising any contingency plans at all and its generally unpopular demand to study whether the price of gold should be raised. Comparing the Six's action to Britain's ill-fated prewar efforts to placate Adolf Hitler, Britain's weekly The Economist fumed: "Munich has once before been a synonym for the unsuccessful appeasement of unreason. It may have become so again...
Adenauer served as Cologne's mayor until 1933, when Hitler took over. Brownshirts adorned the city's bridge with swastika flags for the Fuhrer's first visit, but Adenauer had them torn down before Hitler arrived and refused to greet him. That abruptly ended his career as mayor, and he was classified as "politically unreliable." He spent the next twelve years alternately in prison or reading and tending his roses in the hillside villa he built at RhÖndorf. There, near war's end, he was nearly hit by an American shell as he watched...
...Gunner Asch tetralogy, West German Novelist Hans Hellmut Kirst explored the soldier's life in Hitler's Wehrmacht, in which he himself had served twelve years, and found a simple point: a dogface is a dogface, even under the sign of the swastika. Asch was a universal type, a latter-day Good Soldier Schweik, the goof-off who confounds every military system...
...World War II, Prideaux has within his grasp the command of the British Expeditionary Force in Europe should Hitler invade Poland. At this moment, a letter appears in a British magazine, suggesting that Prideaux had actually blundered at Dan-koi and, in fact, was not present when needed. Prideaux, naturally, sues for libel, whereupon the whole story is re-enacted for judge and reader...
...return again to "Waking Early Sunday Morning," in which the narrator is summoned to church by electric bells to hear the hymns which "sign of peace and preach despair. "Decline and the brink of despair, commonly held by those who spent their youth in the shadows of Domitian and Hitler, are powerfully communicated in this fine stanza...