Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Prophet Wolfe undertook his biggest assignment. He well knew that many a U. S. citizen tenaciously believes more evident untruths about Soviet Russia than he would ever permit himself to believe about any other government in the world. Most dangerous untruth at this time: that the hard-boiled bosses in the Kremlin are somehow longing to aid the democracies which they had been busily undermining for some 20 years...
...Nazi knockout of France may believe instead that the Red Army has become the Reichswehr's vast awkward squad, Russia itself a Nazi economic dependency. But last week, as the Red Army overran Bucovina and Bessarabia while Hitler gazed benevolently in other directions, it looked as if Prophet Wolfe might be right again, at least for a little while...
Throughout the Reich other Nazi bigwigs celebrated. Prophet Alfred Rosenberg heralded the dawn of the "new social age." And Party Organizing Director Dr. Robert Ley was already turning out little Führers - that long-dreamed-of elite which Adolf Hitler expects to run (and enjoy the first fruits of) the Government and commerce of his part of the world, if and when the Nazis are able to change their war economy into just plain economy...
...Vogelsang in the Rhineland, Sonthofen in Bavaria. Specializing in ideology and the theory of leadership, they spend one year at each castle. Then the final selection is made and those found to possess supreme qualities of leadership go to the Führerschule in Bavaria, where at the feet of Prophet Rosenberg they imbibe the spiritual understanding and enlightenment necessary for proclaiming to future generations the word of Adolf Hitler, the word which they hope will guide the world for 1,000 years...
...staged in 1918. Its almost certain end: 1) overwhelming victory for the attackers or 2) their inevitable collapse, from exhaustion of materiel as well as of morale. (Even Germany's great factories cannot, for example, turn out aircraft as fast as they were destroyed last week.) Only a prophet could foresee the outcome. But an examination of present facts made plain that an outcome had become imminent...