Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people to spend all that money on trials for us, because we are going to get off." But Schwalb was wrong. One midnight last week the guards marched him twelve steps to the gallows, strapped him hand & foot. Schwalb stiffened to attention, and shouted in English: "My führer, I follow thee!" Then they slipped a noose around his neck and pulled it tight. The trap was sprung. It was the first time a prisoner of war had ever been executed in Canada...
Died. Marshal Ion Antonescu, 63, premier and puppet führer of wartime Rumania; before a firing squad; at Jilava Prison near Bucharest. French-educated Antonescu, motivated more by hatred of Russia than by love for Germany, reduced Rumania to a Nazi satrapy, then tried in 1944 to conclude an armistice with the Western powers, failed, was trapped and imprisoned by King Michael...
...last week. In Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel's defense, there was none of Hermann Göring's brilliant, bravura justification of Naziism. Like sweating, terrified Ribbentrop, who testified before him-but in a very different manner-the once proud Wehrmacht chief hid behind his Führer's back...
...concept of aggressive war is a politician's concept, not a soldier's," he announced. "I did no more than write the Führer's orders and forward them...
...British intelligence officers had watched the plot develop for months. Under the direction of one-armed Arthur Axmann, once Reichsjugendführer, responsible only to Hitler, former Hitler Youth leaders were grouping themselves in innocent-looking business firms, preserving their organization, biding their time. Then, suddenly, the Allies struck. When a wild night of house raids and gun battles was over, 800 young Nazis were behind bars...