Word: mein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler makes most of his money by selling Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), the autobiographic "Nazi Bible" which has passed 2,000,000 copies, and out of his newspaper Völkisclier Beobachter ("The People's Observer...
...They not only confirmed the lower court's sentence of Death upon Captain Taudien and Butcher Westermann, considered the ringleaders, but ordered the life sentences of Silk Tester Gautschi and Mechanic Müller stiffened to execution. Only Mechanic Schroeder, whose protestations of "my innocence, so help me, Mein Gott!" have been especially moving, was let off with ten years imprisonment...
...prima donnas have superstitions and Lotte Lehmann is no exception. In her dressing-room she keeps photographs of "mein Vater, meine Mutter, mein Mann und mein Bruder Fritz." She kisses them all and takes a nip of sherry before she goes on stage. For the rest her entourage consists of three stuffed animals: a brown plush dog, a fluffy white cat which holds a lorgnette, a horrid-looking dachshund made of sea shells. Her enthusiasms in the U. S. are for Greta Garbo's cinemas and "the rubberneck busses" which go through San Francisco's Chinatown...
Working on this basis, which is simply the theory that nothing is so striking as evidence turned against the testifier, the two editors have complied a volume of 135 pages of quotations from Nazi publications and speeches. Hitler's own book, "Mein Kampi", has been sliced up into endless short paragraphs. These, which contain some of The Loader's most warlike statements, have been placed side by side with excerpts from Hitler's Peace Speech of October 14, 1933. Now since the latter was delivered in an effort to allay the fears of Europe that was aroused by Germany...
...Leader and Chancellor [Adolf Hitler] commands that henceforth all soldiers shall address him as Mein Führer ("My Leader...