Word: silesia
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Little Miss Echo. She described him as a man "who loved the mountains [of Silesia] with the intensity that a man might love a woman." In 1943 he went there to think about Miss Gillars (he had a wife and three children) and there found that "God favored his love." After that, she echoed his ideas like an empty barrel on a hog caller's porch. Since he was anti-British, anti-Jewish and anti-Roosevelt, she had said some rather hard things on the radio...
Adolf Hitler was dead again, a week after a refugee reported seeing him in Silesia (with a triangular mustache). His onetime dentist said, after studying a dental journal, that he was practically positive the Russians had Hitler's jawbone in custody...
...Wiesbaden, Germany, a refugee from Silesia declared that she had been living next door to Adolf Hitler in Liegnitz- on President Roosevelt Strasse. (Skeptical military government officials said that it was Russia's problem.) "He has a triangular mustache now," said the woman, "and he grows sideburns ... He is living with a small, dark woman . . . He has formed a new party-the T.P.Z. I don't know what it stands...
...dissimulation ("If I thought that my shirt or my skin knew anything of my intentions," he said, "I would tear them off"); he was capable of barefaced sophistry in diplomacy, but he frankly admitted in a private letter and in his memoirs that one reason for his seizure of Silesia at the beginning of his reign was sheer vanity...
...this "rape of Silesia," however, he proclaimed justifications that were echoed in every subsequent Prussian and German aggression. The mere legal rights were the least important. Prussia, he argued, was entitled to territory commensurate with her stature as a state; Prussia could govern Silesia better than Austria could; it was Prussia's destiny, and anyway he was only striking first, for it was a defensive war designed to "prevent others [from] seizing" Silesia, and to bulwark Prussia against her enemies. The works of Prussia's enemies, then and in the dreadful Seven Years' War that followed, were...