Word: hrers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addicted to strong men, and Adenauer's victory had been in many ways as personal a triumph as that of Eisenhower in the U.S. ten months before. Left-wing Germans were quick to charge that the Adenauer sweep had raised the possibility of his becoming another Führer. The Germanic equivalents of "I told you so" echoed loudly in some quarters a day or so after the election, when the Chancellor let loose a blast at the Socialist-dominated Federation of Trades Unions, which had lined up against him in the election. Demanding a change of leadership...
Hitler's Secret Conversations, by Adolf Hitler (introduced by British Historian H. R. Trevor-Roper). The Führer's unguarded, all-night talkfests, taken down in shorthand by party associates, give an excellent insight into a weird and fascinating mind (TIME...
...Nazi outfit called the German Reich Party (DRP) has brazenly entered the lists. Its Führer is handsome Werner Naumann, 43, former chief of staff to Dr. Goebbels, and, by his own account, "the top-ranking Nazi at large." It was he who in 1945 broadcast from the Berlin bunker in which Hitler and Goebbels cowered,* promising the German people that "final victory" would be theirs...
...solutions. Then, into the early hours of the morning, with his intimates gathered around over tea and cakes, Hitler reminisced about his youth, dreamed about his empire, pontificated about whatever came to mind. Hitler's Secret Conversations is the stenographic record of these ramblings in the Führer's East Prussian and Russian headquarters between July 1941 and November 1944. They were taken down in shorthand by trusted party officials, Heinrich Heim and Henry Picker, then corrected and preserved by the Führer's factotum, SS Leader Martin Bormann.* Samples...
...adjutant, his quack doctor and his vegetarian cook. They had heard his theories many times before and were bored, but they sat helplessly drowsing into the morning, a captive audience. Only Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, ever did anything about it. She would pointedly ask the Führer the time. Hitler usually took the hint and closed the window on the refuse-laden backyard of his mind...