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...Fascists were victorious in Spain, and would remain so entrenched for fully 40 years. Hitler's Nuremberg laws ruled in Germany as he prepared for World War II. Mussolini made the trains run on time, but did little else that can be praised in the hindsight history affords...
...heart of the problem is the disputed status of Berlin. After Hitler's defeat in 1945, the city was carved up by the victorious Allies. Technically, the entire city is under the combined control of the four occupying nations. In practice, the three Western powers jointly administer the western half of the city, while the Soviet Union takes responsibility for East Berlin. In 1949, with Moscow's backing, East Germany proclaimed East Berlin as its capital. When the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, the East Germans had a physical boundary that they insisted was part of their frontier. They...
Just 25 days before Adolf Hitler committed suicide in Berlin, U.S. Army Private Wil bert Massman entered Munich with the 179th Infantry Regiment and settled into a small apartment on the city's east side, using it as an office. While rummaging through a bookcase, Massman stumbled on a red leather album embossed with a swastika. Flipping through the album, he saw 72 photos of World War I scenes, four of which showed a man who appeared to be the young Adolf Hitler. Other items, bearing the monogram A.H., convinced Massman that the apartment had once been Hitler's. Massman...
Forty years later, Massman, now 70, retrieved the album and sold it to Randall Donley, the owner of a local museum. Donley contacted United Press International, which set out to authenticate the photos. Last week experts proclaimed the pictures the real thing--maybe. After the memorable Hitler- diary hoax of three years ago, few experts were eager to put their reputations on the line once more...
...McNeely, tearing down a dirt road after two kids on unregistered, unlicensed, uninsured motorcycles, conceded there was some resistance to his policies at first. "Some people called me a little dictator, a little Hitler," he said. "I was fighting tooth and nail to clean up the department, and it seemed like everything I did got blowed out of proportion. It was all over hell." The marshal expertly maneuvered his squad car into a position to cut off the young bikers. Both got off with warnings, and the admonition that failure to correct their legal obligations would amount...