Word: shirer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BERLIN DIARY (369 pp.]-William L Shirer-Knopf...
Late in 1940, when Broadcaster William Lawrence Shirer found it wise to clear out of Germany, he contrived to smuggle out several pounds of his day-to-day private notes on the Nazis and their antics. These became Berlin Diary, which nearly a million Americans bought for a sideline view of Hitler Germany in action. Now, on a return visit to Berlin, Shirer conducts his readers into the whipped team's locker room, where all is groans, whimpers-and hopes of war between the U.S. and Russia...
That some of the German people consider their defeat a dirty trick to be revenged some day is hardly spot news. Shirer, however, is convinced that the feeling runs wide and deep. As early as 1943, with the war's end still two years off, the feeling of being put upon by the world began creeping into the General Staff's hush-hush memoranda, many of which Shirer quotes practically in full. It reaches a climax in Hitler's absurd will, and is still, says Shirer, an article of faith today. Though expressed repeatedly...
Drang nach Osten. Among the documents which Shirer quotes is Hitler's pronouncement on the Russians to his supreme command, November 1939: "Russia is at present not dangerous. It is weakened by many factors today. Moreover, we have a pact with Russia. Pacts, however, are only held as long as they serve the purpose. . . . Let one think of the pact to assure our back. Now Russia has far-reaching goals; above all, the strengthening of her position in the Baltic. We can oppose Russia only when we are free in the West. [France had not then been overrun...
...Gabriel Heatter. 5. William L, Shirer...