Word: hrer
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Stani and Paulina are crazy for each other. He (Pirotr Lysak) is a young Polish prisoner of war, and she (Hanna Schygulla) is a middle-aged German housewife running her husband's grocery store while he goes off to fight for the Führer, but propriety be damned-they can't and don't keep their hands to themselves. They neck furiously as a young customer enters the store. Stani squats behind the counter and strokes Paulina's thigh while foraging for another customer's potatoes. Everybody in town knows about them: Paulina...
...staff in Europe. Shirer's journalistic credentials eventually brought him invitations to the bizarre Nazi Bierabends (get-togethers over beer) organized for the press by Alfred Rosenberg, the official Nazi philosopher. Hermann Göring would circulate, fat, affable and crude; then came the Führer's "somewhat dim-witted 'deputy,' " Rudolf Hess; then the "vain, pompous, incredibly stupid" Joachim von Ribbentrop, who was to be Foreign Minister. Shirer recalls being dumbfounded by Bernhard Rust, the Nazi Education Minister, a bureaucratic ideologue who explained the difference between serious, careful, Aryan physics and the degenerate Jewish...
Shirer was close enough to Hitler to feel the Nazi leader's messianic personal force. Even in the early '30s, his memoir makes clear, he was not tempted to underrate the Führer. But the collection of crackbrains and third-raters with which Hitler surrounded himself was absurd enough, by Shirer's account, to suggest a reason for the long years before the Nazis were taken seriously in England...
...midsummer offensive across a 300-mile front east of Minsk and demolished 28 German divisions within a month. On July 20, Hitler's own Wehrmacht officers turned against him. Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg planted under Hitler's conference table a bomb that was supposed to kill the Führer. A shaken and partly deafened Hitler survived to wreak vengeance on the conspirators (even Rommel, who was not directly involved, was forced to take poison) and to add a manic streak to his own supervision...
...boat commander during World War I, he became a minister in the Lutheran Evangelical Church in 1924. Though an early Nazi supporter, Niemöller led the clerical opposition after Hitler came to power in 1933, crying, "Not you, Herr Hitler, but God is my Führer." Hitler responded by sending him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938 and later to Dachau. After the war's end, Niemöller worked to rebuild the Protestant Church in Germany, and served as co-president of the World Council of Churches from 1961 to 1968. He continued to propound...