Word: hrers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Ebert's trusted State Secretary, was kept as confidant by Hindenburg, and a behind-the-scenes negotiator between Hindenburg and the up & coming Nazis. He turned up after Hitler's 1933 rise to power as a gaudily uniformed Minister of State for the new Führer. Tried and acquitted as a war criminal after World War II, he lived out his last days in retirement, writing his memoirs...
...confusion, social decay, and a noticeably growing lack of public confidence in government have created a . . . grave national peril." Replied Quirino the next day: "I have decided for the nomination and I shall get it." Countered Romulo, no longer polite to his former boss: "This is the Führer speaking...
...lieutenant general. His first unsavory taste of politics came in 1932, when he was ordered by Chancellor von Papen to oust the Socialist ministers of Prussia; he obeyed. The ranking general when Hitler shortly came to power, von Rundstedt did nothing to hobble the Führer, acquiesced-however unwillingly-in Hitler's assaults on the officer corps. Six years later, he saw his friend and colleague, Werner von Fritsch, sacked and tried on a trumped-up morality charge. Von Rundstedt protested. By that time he saw that the Nazis' course was leading to war with Britain, which...
...night. After the Allied landing in Normandy and the subsequent breakout, Field Marshal Keitel, Oberkommando chief in Berlin, got von Rundstedt on the telephone and wailed, "What shall we do?" Von Rundstedt snapped, "Make peace, you fools!" Keitel ran to Hitler with the remark, and the Führer wrote von Rundstedt a "nice letter," saying that Field Marshal Günther von Kluge would take his place. Discharged, von Rundstedt nonetheless presided at the "Court of Honor," which ruthlessly drummed out of the German army those officers implicated or suspected in the unsuccessful July 20 attempt on Adolf Hitler...
...realms, each corresponding to a person of the Trinity. The Third Realm, said Joachim, was about to begin with the appearance of Dux e Babylone. (In terms of modern Gnosticism, the leader from Babylon would be called Superman or Der Führer, or "the dictatorship of the proletariat in the form of the democratic centralism of the Party.") The Third Realm was to be characterized by wisdom, and after the Third Realm's beginning (set by Joachim for the year 1260), men would soon be so perfect that they would not need any Dux or government or discipline...