Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the French line on the Somme. When Hitler launched his attack on Russia, it was Manstein who commanded the southern German army group, won a string of victories in the Ukraine and the Crimea. Hamstrung during the long retreat after Stalingrad by frantic orders from the Führer, he broke with Hitler, lived in retirement while the Allies smashed their way into Germany...
...speech he warned the delegates against totalitarian power grabs. He recalled the March 1933 meeting of the Reichstag, which voted the infamous enabling act handing Hitler his dictatorial powers. At this, an interrupting cry came from the extreme left, behind the kettledrums. It was Max Reimann, Communist Parteiführer of Western Germany and one of the 15 representatives of his party in the Bundestag: "How many delegates here voted...
...small-time obstetrician who looked more like a frustrated shoe clerk than the ruler of an Invisible Empire, Green climbed the Klan ladder in comparative obscurity until he got the job of Grand Dragon. Postwar, he shuffled off Klan debts, whipped up membership, emerged as undisputed führer of racial and religious bigotry in the South...
Nazis kept the 259 paintings in the Führer-bau of Munich for the sole reason of pleasing Hitler whenever he visited the city. When the end came, and the SS guards had fled . . . the people from the neighborhood, joined by D.P.s and liberated inmates of the Dachau camp, stormed the party buildings in search of scarce items. When all the food and liquor, and much of the furniture, had been carted off, they broke into the air-raid cellars where the paintings were stored, climbing over stacks of Panzerfaust grenades...
...ring. Inside was Adolf Hitler. Mumbling his magic formula, Kio lowered what he explained was "not an iron, but a silken curtain." When the curtain rose once more, the workers had been moved inside the cage, and outside, mocking them, stood Hitler. On hand to congratulate the Führer on his escape were a U.S. capitalist and Winston Churchill, complete with cheroot and navy...