Word: putsch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make conditional peace with any Wehrmacht generals' regime that kicks out the top Nazis. To many a Wehrmacht general the Russian offer makes sense.* But it can be accepted only by an Army revolt. Hitler's strongest man in the way of such an anti-Nazi Putsch is Heinrich Himmler -supreme boss of the German home front; commander of 600,000 splendidly trained and well-armed SS youths, supersaturated with Naziism, mostly stationed on the home front...
...Antonescu's arrests and executions were not to crush an Iron Guard Putsch. Rumania's uprising was spontaneous and was spreading through all classes. It was led by agitators belonging particularly to the Communist and Peasant parties. Perhaps many disillusioned Iron Guardists joined...
Haushofer and Hitler. World War I raised young Haushofer to the rank of major general. He had a young aide-decamp named Rudolf Hess, who in the post war years attended his lectures on geography at the University of Munich. When the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch failed (1923), Haushofer hid Hess in his mountain home. When Hess was imprisoned with Hitler, Haushofer visited them there...
...they expected clear-cut, reassuring statements, they were disappointed. Adolf Hitler's brightest predictions, as he spoke from Munich's Lowenbrdukeller on the 19th anniversary of his first abortive Putsch, were that Germany would hold her lines and some day strike back. His most fervent injunction to the people was that they pray for the Reich's survival "in this war for the existence or destruction of our nation...
...determined because in previous years the end of the Smoker has often been the occasion for a riot. Before the end of the Smoker night last year, it took a host of proctors, Yard cops, and Cambridge police to break up an attempted repetition of the legendary 1937 Spring "Putsch" on Radcliffe...