Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Junker but a schoolteacher's son, Erwin Rommel fought with distinction in World War I, emerged into the chaos of postwar Germany a well decorated captain. Lost, he found Hitler. He became the ranting Führer's bodyguard, military adviser and top-drawer hooligan. When Hitler rang up the curtain on World War II Erwin Rommel was a colonel, commanded an 55 division that fought in the battle of Poland's Vistula bend. By the time France was invaded, Rommel was a major general; he led the 7th Armored Division in the breakthrough at Maubeuge...
...France last week the U.S. Third Army captured one German who was convinced that Hitler had told a great truth -at least once. "The Führer was dead right," the disillusioned prisoner said, "when he boasted 'If I could have control of Germany for ten years, you wouldn't be able to recognize...
...wish you to know," he went on, "that I have received orders from my Führer to fight to the last man and that is what I intend to do. The sole reason for suggesting this truce is to find a way of evacuating the civilian population...
...gives him clothes. Not all the people he meets are brave, or intelligent, or kind. His former sweetheart (Karen Verne) has married a Nazi, his brother is a Storm Trooper. But his old friend Paul Roeder (Hume Cronyn), a rabbity little workman who is grateful to the Führer for his job and his three babies, also turns out to have a heart...
Well ahead of the Nazi evacuation, Paris' wartime musical Führer, a thin, rather Goebbels-like German composer named Werner Egk, had packed his trunks and left in a hurry. Last week Egk's few Parisian friends were in the doghouse...