Word: hrers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last, 39 miles out of Salzburg, a 21-year-old diner steward took matters into his own hands, pulled the emergency brake. As the train screeched to a halt at Prien, Stationmaster Johann Birner, roused by frantic phone calls from down the line, said to Oskar: "LokomotivfÜhrer, I think you are drunk...
...Britain. Like many another message directed to the prancing paranoid who planned to rule the world from Berlin, it revealed not so much historical fact as the fantastic lengths of self-deception followed by Hitler's ever-toadying diplomats in their constant effort to tell the Führer what he wanted to hear...
...Western Front is collapsing under the blows of the Normandy invasion forces, but Von Puckhammer shores up his own dwindling sector as if he were the Führer's one-man secret weapon. When he rounds up a few Maquis and has them shot beside open graves, the general touches his hat and murmurs: "May God have mercy on them, the mercy which we could not show them." "He's got nice manners," thinks Horlacher drily...
...when father died. He took me to my first opera-Lohengrin. But he made me stick to my studies. When we were children, he would tell me that if anyone was unkind to me he would protect me." Had she ever foreseen Hitler's rise to Führer? "No," said she with a smile. "But he was always a man who knew what he wanted." So saying, she turned back to her typewriter and her memoirs...
...mistake; after his plane plummeted to earth there was nothing left to bury. An aging father comes to visit his son only to find that he is missing on a long-overdue mission. As for the flyers, they are overwhelmed by no vision of their Führer's "Gotterdämmerung," just a nagging sense of failure ("They meant to defend a Thermopylae, but there was no Thermopylae to defend"). Himself a fighter pilot in World War II, Gerd Gaiser puts a peculiar mystique about Hitler in the mouth of one of his characters: "God has sent...