Word: hrers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepared for a blitz invasion according to Plan Green. D-day had been set for Oct. 1, 1938 and preparations had been made against possible reprisals on the part of France. Hitler was fully prepared to risk war. Cololnel General Alfred Jodl (who liked to compare his Führer to Napoleon) personally drew up a plan to bomb Prague without warning...
...whose bald head shone brightly under the floodlights; dark glasses and earphones gave him a horror-story air. He was Major General Erwin Lahousen, aide to the late, little-known Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Wehrmacht's counterintelligence. After the unsuccessful bomb attempt on the Führer's life in July 1944, Canaris was slowly strangled with piano wire...
...only thing they had salvaged from their days of dubious glory was their arrogance, and that was tattered. They displayed it as best they could, by exhibiting supercilious boredom during the reading of the indictment. Hermann Göring, whom most of them tacitly accepted as their "Führer," had also managed to salvage his vastly deceptive joviality (he graciously gave his autograph to a U.S. Navy technician) and one of his fancy uniforms, a fawn-colored, brass-buttoned affair, stripped of medals and cut down to fit his slenderized body. The uniform was obviously good for his morale...
...sure that TIME will be unwilling to let Business Week stand accused of favoring the "Führer principle" as a result of this strange misquotation in your Oct. 29 issue: "Business Week, which had looked uneasily on Franklin Roosevelt for twelve years, came right out and said that what the country apparently needs is 'a return to one-man government for a while...
...Does Editor Smith hold that the country accepts the "Führer principle...