Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon Hitler was reaching equally luminous conclusions about the Jews. He began to read the publications of Vienna's violently anti-Semitic Mayor Doktor Karl Lueger and his Christian Socialist Party. "One day when I was walking through the inner city, I suddenly came upon a being clad in a long caftan, with black curls. Is this also a Jew? was my first thought. . . . But the longer I stared at this strange face and scrutinized one feature after the other, the more my mind reshaped the first question into another form: Is this also a German...
...prestige had increased. One by one the perverse paladins of the Nazi inner circle gathered around him: ¶ Hermann Goring, the former flyer and drug addict...
...With Harry Truman in the White House, there would be no room for Franklin Roosevelt's "anonymous" assistants, nor for the advice and influence of Harry Hopkins, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson, Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, Judge Sam Rosenman, and others of the inner New Deal circle...
...called "a dead city" -and smashed Potsdam, cradle of the German army. The British also attacked German ports and shipping off the north coast. After a raid on Kiel, where the flyers saw a tremendous explosion, reconnaissance photographs showed the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, capsized and sunk in the inner basin...
...coming naval officer during Japan's war against China's decadent Manchu Empire (1894-5) and against Russia's hapless Tsarist Navy (1904-5). Before his retirement in 1927, he rose to the Navy's supreme command. Then he joined the inner circle of the Court. As Grand Chamberlain he walked a few respectful paces behind Hirohito at public functions (see cut), helped name the Emperor's first born son. Most important, he served as the door through which the warlords had access to the throne...