Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chauffeur, the late Julius ("Pistol") Schreck, who sometimes concealed as many as seven guns about his person. In 1937 one of Hitler's adjutants told Schreck, who had a swollen jaw from an abscessed tooth, that, looking as he did, he ought not to drive the Führer. Schreck went to his garage, slashed at the abscess with a screwdriver, tried to extract the tooth with a pair of pliers, left for his drive with a raging fever, subsequently died of infection. Hitler wept openly at his death...
...democracy. True democracies should be suspicious of so-called great men. The Führer principle is not for us. We want no Führers here...
...knew, there was only one reason why anyone should have wanted to murder Clément. He was managing editor of Le Cri du Peuple, whose fat, loud, ex-Communist publisher, Jacques Doriot, has kept telling the French people that they should acknowledge Adolf Hitler as their Führer...
Masefield's conclusion is that Hitler is caught in a dilemma: the eastern offensive cannot be long delayed, but first the Führer must withdraw aircraft from France or Italy, thus giving the R.A.F. even greater supremacy and perhaps making a continental invasion possible...
...Kapp's Hotel the night I was there. They talked of this and that, mainly of the local water problem, which was acute, and 'home,' which 'was Germany. Then a woman remarked, weren't they proud of the way their Führer was holding back the vicious Russian onslaught; but soon her face lit up-the spring would come and then. . . . She stopped abruptly. Someone had motioned that a stranger was present. Strangers round here were rare...