Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your great hour has struck. Strong attacking armies are advancing today against the Anglo-Americans. I do not need to say more to you. You all feel it. Everything is at stake. You bear the holy duty to ... achieve the superhuman for our Fatherland and our Führer." After a short spell of bad weather which grounded Allied reconnaissance and attack planes, Rundstedt struck. Crack German armored and infantry divisions drove in behind massive artillery barrages. German paratroops landed behind the U.S. lines, tried to snarl communications. Buzz-bombs, rockets and a new, undescribed V-weapon came over...
...George Bernard Shaw characterized World War II as "a mere Bubble in the froth of history," scorned the notion that a trial of Adolf Hitler would prevent future wars, predicted that the Führer would probably end up in a vice-regal lodge in Dublin. As for women being able to do anything about keeping the peace, Shaw snorted: "Men are pugnacious and women are very, pugnacious...
Then Presiding Judge Ronald Freisler pronounced sentence: "Mrs. Klara Z is sentenced to die by the ax for her defeatist attitude and for having insulted the Führer, the German people and the German state...
...received this news. At first she stared at me, then shouted: 'All this is the work of the devil, that mass murderer! Poor Germany, this is how things are with us.' I considered this utterance as of a decidedly defeatist nature and inimical to our Führer. I did not hesitate to inform the authorities...
...inescapable conclusion from these antipathetic attitudes is that thousands of voters want a spectacular leader, a "Führer," for their candidate. They desire and seek an egocentric, messianic individual, under whose banner they may exultantly follow in search of the more abundant life...