Word: rzburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gauleiter Otto Hellmuth sounded a practical note. "We all know that God is with us," he told the people of Würzburg, "but let's not rely on God alone. Let's work so hard and fight so fiercely that God cannot refuse to hand the victory palm to Germany...
...feverish, ambitious young Adolf Hitler heard a lecture by a disgruntled young construction engineer named Gottfried Feder. Feder, a native of Würzburg, boiled down Germany's economic troubles to too much raffendes Kapital ("international, Jewish, exploitive"), too little schaffendes Kapital ("national, purely German, creative"). Later Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf: "When I heard Feder . . . the idea instantly flashed through my head that I had now found my way to one of the prime essentials for the foundation of a new party...