Word: meine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill, nor Stalin, nor Roosevelt, nor any other Allied leader ever really articulated the nature of this war. It was more nearly named by Nazis in such outpourings as Mein Kampf. But the Allied peoples showed that they sensed it by the way they fought-not with great hate but implacably, as men fighting for the existence of their civilization...
...Landsberg, with the help of Rudolf Hess, he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle}. Seldom has a plotter set forth his purposes in plainer language or more explicit detail. The book was badly organized, but in it were the plans for Hitler's aggression against Germany and the rest of the world. The intellectuals contented themselves with laughing at Hitler's ideas and correcting his literary style...
...Books do not make wars, nor do books win them; yet there has never been a war in history in which books figured so importantly. It was a book (Mein Kampf), written just a little more than twenty years ago, which set forth the gospel of pan-Germanism and the German faith in aggression. Books were martyred by those who thought that ideas could be destroyed by burning the paper upon which they had been set down. There were books which tried to warn us of the enemy. There were books written in hot desert sun and under naval gunfire...
...Roosevelt feigned some reluctance in saying it, but there seemed to be something a bit "foreign" creeping into the campaign this year-a "propaganda technique invented by the dictators abroad." It was, he feared, a technique out of Mein Kampf; never tell a small lie, make it a fantastic whopper and keep repeating...
...stack of telegrams mounted, so did Tom Dewey's anger. He finally collected himself and handed newsmen a reply, just in time to catch the Monday morning papers. Said he: "My opponent indicated that he has no program and has sunk to mere quoting from Mein Kampf. . . . I shall examine his record with unvarnished candor." At Belen, N. Mex., Tom Dewey got off, walked into a glass phone booth in the station, put in a long distance call to National Chairman Herbert Brownell. While Indian children and cowboys ogled him through the glass, Tom Dewey ordered a second radio...