Word: napoleone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great precedent for the disposal of defeated conquerors had been Napoleon's exile on St. Helena. In the world of 1945, that solution did not appeal to statesmen who pondered the recent career of Benito Mussolini. Shamed and defeated though he was before he fled to haven with the Nazis in northern Italy, he still retained immense standing and kept Fascism alive in millions of Italian hearts...
...Alps from Salzburg to Lombardy? The terrain will then favor us on all sides, and we will make any attackers pay a hideous price. Think it over. We do not ask for much-only that we, ourselves, be permitted to live out our lives in dignity and comfort, as Napoleon did at St. Helena. You may do what you will with Germany. Think it over...
...hear that the Rhine had been crossed must have been a shattering blow to the remnants of German morale. The Rhine, the sacred river that winds through German song & story, had not been crossed by hostile armies since Napoleon passed over it at Strasbourg in 1805. * As a military factor, the Remagen bridgehead offered the chance of a drive to the northeast, outflanking the Ruhr; or a push to the southeast, forcing a German withdrawal from the Saar and the rest of the Rhineland south of the Moselle...
...Napoleon's crossing was not contested; the people of Baden were on his side. Napoleon was moving to fight Austria, not Bavaria or Prussia...
Emil Ludwig, German-born biographer (Napoleon, Bismarck, Roosevelt) now living in Los Angeles, prophesied the postwar German attitude: "Germans again will try to avoid responsibility like a rich man's mistress when he has lost all his money. They will cry, pointing at Hitler: 'He seduced...