Word: hrers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blond, pudgy, slack-mouthed, sullen and mean-eyed, the sniper ranted about the disgrace of capture, said he would rather have died for his Führer. An American lieutenant, one of whose men had been killed by these snipers, handed him a .45 automatic with one cartridge in the chamber. The German looked at the G.I.s who had him covered with rifles. Then he put the pistol's heavy muzzle to the soft spot under his right ear and pulled the trigger. One of the G.I.s said: "First he surrenders and then he shoots himself...
...great Krupp works at Essen, arsenal of Kaiser and Führer, lay dead. For five years this steel heart of the German war machine had been a prime target of Allied bombers. Last week U.S. Ninth Armymen rolled past the debris, a few miles farther south overran the high-walled Villa Hügel, secluded estate of powerful, mysterious Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Herr President of Krupp, silent partner of Naziism, now wanted by the Allies as a war criminal...
...Torture Hitler. Some suggested giving the Führer a ride on a V-bomb. One old lady wanted the Führer nailed to an outhouse and the building then burned down...
...starred tanks of Marshals Fedor I. Tolbukhin and Rodion Y. Malinovsky knifed nearer Vienna, the old Habsburg capital where the Nazi Führer first paraded as a conqueror. They reached Wiener-Neustadt, bomb-battered center through which supplies flow to Germans in Yugoslavia and Italy. The great Austrian and Czechoslovakian industries, which at the end of 1944 were supplying some 60% of German war production, were threatened...
...After a hectic meeting with his generals, the Führer had agreed to request an armistice...