Word: hrers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler took a liking to black-eyed, paunchy Kurt Zeitzler during the Polish campaign when the Führer reviewed one of Himmler's 55 regiments. Zeitzler quickly rose from colonel to general, served in Poland, the Balkans and the Caucasus as a Panzer staff officer and, despite his Gestapo connections, won the grudging respect of the Wehrmacht's Junkers...
Axis troops in suddenly hopeless positions gave up. Across the steppes plodded long lines of Axis prisoners hobbling to Russian bases, some to have frozen limbs amputated, stumbling toward the Volga in a Drang nach Osten such as der Führer never pictured. According to Moscow communiqués, 66,000 were seized in ten days of fighting. Into Russian hands fell quantities of booty: food, clothing, more than 50,000 rifles, 3,935 machine guns, 1,380 tanks...
...still bemused by sleep, the old man read the words that ended his last vain hope of building up a new French state on the terms of the armistice signed at Compiegne. Because of "treachery" on the part of high officers of the French armed forces, the Führer wrote, he had ordered the demobilization of the remaining units of Vichy's Army and Navy. The great naval base of Toulon, last remaining bit of the free zone, was to be occupied, the warships stationed there taken or "annihilated" to prevent their escape to the Allies. Control...
...unworthy Japan to fall upon her shoulders. Having herself been a victim of exploitation, China has infinite sympathy for the submerged nations of Asia, and toward them China feels she has only responsibilities-not rights. We repudiate the .idea of leadership of Asia because the 'Fiührer principle' has been synonymous with domination and exploitation, precisely as the 'East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere' has stood for a race of mythical supermen lording over groveling subject races...
...Nagata in the War Office in 1935, and the brutal February Revolt in 1936 which grew out of the Nagata trial. This program of crime was rewarding. The threat of assassination could be as effective as assassination. In the end, the military became Japan's collective Führer...