Word: quadriga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...numbers. But the fanatics fought on. Perhaps they meant to fight from the deep basement of Hitler's chancellery, from behind the heroic statues of Prussians in the Tiergarten's Victory Avenue, from all around the 150-year-old Brandenburger Tor and its surmounting green-grey copper Quadriga of Victory. Defense Commissioner Joseph Goebbels screamed his final exhortations to stand and die, then, reportedly, fled. The Hamburg radio shrilled that Adolf Hitler himself had chosen to stay in his capital at the head of its defense rather than retreat to a place of safety in the south. Berliners...
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