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Word: stupids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yelled Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels: "Seldom has history seen such a stupid, unimaginative document as the two big guns of world plutocracy framed. . . . Whoever wants to disarm us will have to go to the little trouble of taking our weapons from us. . . . We understand clearly why these international profiteers of plutocracy hate the Führer and his system. He has established a social form in which order, cleanliness and clarity reign. . . . These war and inflation profiteers, these fat capitalists and devoted Jewish servants, these perjurers of their own election promises, deserve only that the German people contemptuously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Points on the Points | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...this, which might be read as critical doubletalk: "Some stupid Germans dare to ask why Hitler suddenly discovered that Stalin and Molotov were criminals, whereas only two years before we had signed a friendship pact with Russia. These Germans also remark that German propaganda should make no mention of the cruel bloodshed at LwÓw, Dubno, Vilna and Riga, maintaining that Germany is responsible-having given these territories ... to Russia. These regrettable Germans, with their uncrushable ideals of impartiality, unwittingly become solicitous for Churchill and we must deal energetically with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: News from Inside | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Last week the tune changed. The battle in front of Moscow, said the Germans with a hint of apology, was "the biggest battle of materiel in the history of the world." German propaganda reporters complained that the enemy, even when surrounded, fought with "stupid Asiatic courage." The German radio went so far in uncertainty as to say: "The decision in this field battle may not be expected for the next few days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: EASTERN THEATER: No Blitz Oblige | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...defeat he has lived on a German pension. His chief sponsor today is said to be Hermann Göring. Finagling old Pavlo Skoropadsky is not too popular with the Nazis' Russian-Ukrainian expert Alfred Rosenberg, a smart man, nor with many Ukrainians who think him stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Pretenders Forward | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...accent. The U.S. and Great Britain have plenty of money to flash in the faces of the South Americans, but money or no money, they are constantly making themselves disliked by their arrogant and aggressive and superior attitude and also they unconsciously insult all the South Americans by their stupid rendition of the language. The behavior of the American men and women in the shops, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs and in all public places is far beneath the quality of the English, and the behavior of the English is at least 40° below the behavior of the people from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1941 | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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