Word: hrer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...implacable lines set the tone for the bloody terror that still racked the Reich a fortnight after Claus von Stauffenberg planted a bomb under the Führer's table and blew the crisis between the Nazi Party and the Army officers wide open...
...good Nazis know, the great German Army was betrayed and brought down by a collapsing home front. That could never happen this time; Führer Adolf Hitler had taken measures. Yet this week Hitler was face to face with another of the savage ironies of history: the great German Army was showing signs of caving in. Would the ironbound Nazi home front be betrayed and brought down in 1944 by a collapsing, demoralized Wehrmacht...
...blind instinct, to his old party comrades, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, men as tightly and irrevocably bound to the Nazi system as himself. But to the Army they were no symbols of confidence. And so as a new Chief of the Army General Staff, the Führer chose a different sort of man. He was neither an all-out Nazi nor an old-line Prussian officer, but an adroit military technician, with links to both camps. He was Colonel General Heinz Guderian (rhymes with agrarian), the Wehrmacht's No. 1 tank general, the kind of officer (Hitler...
...could reason that, after all, he had survived two of Hitler's rug-biting rages: one after the Moscow repulse, one in the 1938 "conquest" of Austria, when his tanks, all dressed up for the Führer's victory parade in Vienna, ran out of gas many miles away. Presumably he could survive a third, if need be. Guderian may also have it in mind that he used to be regarded as one of the "realistic" officers who demanded collaboration with Russia-a fact that might recommend him as a member of some future negotiating committee. Until...
...suggestion of Reich Marshal Goring, the Führer has entrusted to me the task of Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort: . . . I promise the German people to leave nothing untried in order to make Germany in a few weeks fit for war in every way. . . . The Party will be the motor of the entire process of reorganization. It will serve with its usual energy in the task of freeing soldiers for the front and workers for the production of armaments. . . The whole State machinery, including the railroads, post office, institutions and enterprises, will be scrutinized . . . for the Wehrmacht...