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Word: hrers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Janovsky concentration camp, SS Obersturmführer Gustav Wilhaus used to shoot at prisoners from his office window. Once, to amuse his nine-year-old daughter, he "gave an order to throw two four-year-old children high into the air while he took shots at them. His daughter applauded and yelled: 'Do it again.' He did it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Notes from N | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Only with the war did the average German begin to hear of this wraith. He replaced Hess as Deputy Führer; his signature was required on all laws. He slithered about, watching generals and party leaders at work, and a disapproving word from him could mean death. Next to Hitler and Himmler, he was the most powerful man in all Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shadow & Substance | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...date on the document was April 29, 1945. Next day, as British Intelligence believes, the Führer and Eva Braun, his bride of one day, perished in the Berlin Chancellery's ruins. Two days later the Russians captured Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pauper's Will | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...when Herr Doktor Goebbels visited the Berlin workers' district to inspect bomb damage, Hans, dressed up in a Hitler Jugend uniform, proudly presented the Doktor with a bunch of forget-me-nots. Big Brother Joachim joined the Hitler Jugend at ten and became a Grup-penführer before entering the Wehrmacht. Sister Ursula served in the girls' branch of the Hitler Youth, collecting tin foil, warm clothes for soldiers on the eastern front and funds for winter relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Forget-Me-Nots | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Belched Danube. Their first big seller, in 1942, was the Hitler lampoon, Der Führer's Face. When it sold a phenomenal 1,500,000 records, Spike took the City Slickers on a road tour. Recalls Spike: "We were too corny for sophisticated people, and too sophisticated for corny people." But by the end of the tour, collectors and radio disc-jockeys were calling for more. He set about deflating some of Tin Pan Alley's more pretentious tunes. The City Slickers played Chloe straight, with all the tom-toms and jungle mating cries that everybody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spike Jones, Primitive | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

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