Word: lochner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler's, Blunder. Completely isolated from all news of the outside world, those who had been interned in Germany had picked up only odds & ends of information. A.P.'s balding Louis Lochner deflated the myth of the effectiveness of German propaganda. The ''greatest blunder" of Hitler's career, Lochner said, was when he "took upon himself the odium of declaring war upon the U.S." Having for months told the German people that "we won't let ourselves be provoked" by the U.S. pre-war attitude, Hitler then had to confront his people with...
...longer, says Lochner, do the German people believe that their leader is "out smarting" the rest of the world; no longer do they believe in "great victories." The 2,500,000 German casualties, of which 750,000 are dead (Lochner's estimate), is too obvious a sign of German vulnerability...
...Timesmen Hugh Byas, G. E. R. Gedye, P. J. Philip, Frederick Birchall, Augur, Walter Duranty are all British subjects. Louis Lochner, A. P.'s Berlin chief, was Henry Ford's secretary on the Peace Ship, is married to a German. Robert (Pearson &) Allen is so sore at Hitler that"he has his wife drilling with...
Westward across the German border in staff cars rolled Louis Lochner of Associated Press, Frederick Oechsner of United Press, Pierre J. Huss of Hearst's International News Service, over roads packed with advancing Nazi columns...
Wrote Louis Lochner, as he passed through desolate towns laid waste by Nazi bombers: "In no Belgian community through which we have crossed this week . . . have I noticed more hatred in people's eyes than in Aerschot, ten miles northeast of Louvain. . . . I suppose the population takes me for a German. If looks could have killed, I would be a corpse today. . . ." Said a Belgian woman, wife of a soldier at the front, to Frederick Oechsner: "I must say the attitude of the German soldiers has been very correct and orderly...