Word: thunderstorm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Films for the Fuhrer. The July 20 plotters-a network of diplomats, politicians and clergymen, working with disillusioned generals and colonels-had paid dearly for their pains. As soon as the news went out that Hitler was alive, the Gestapo began its dragnet Operation Thunderstorm, which brought the number of Germans arrested that year to 33,000. Stauffenberg was shot, and every other man, woman and child by that name was ordered arrested. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chose suicide by poison. At least 600 men were either guillotined or strangled by piano wire suspended from meat hooks, and their final...
...spite of the sweep of Operation Thunderstorm, the Allies, still wedded to the notion of unconditional surrender, took the position that the July 20 plot was the work of a few desperate Prussian Junker "reactionaries" bent opportunistically on salvaging what they could from a hopeless situation. And even Germans who agreed that Hitler was a menace were appalled at the idea of killing off a commander in time...
...Models." Last week the very man who was briefing Hitler at the time the bomb went off-former Chief of Operations Adolf Heusinger, who survived both the bomb and arrest in Operation Thunderstorm to become inspector general of the new Bundeswehr-signed an appeal to be read to all troops. He praised the men of July 20 for "their Christian-humanist sense of responsibility," added that "their spirit and their attitudes are our models." It is now defense-force doctrine that a German officer may break his oath of loyalty when his commander in chief sets himself above...
...varsity baseball team ran into a Berkshire thunderstorm, and Mouse Kasarjian ran into a warm-up throw from the catcher--both in the fourth inning--but the Williams nine failed to provide much of a problem as the Crimson captured the home-and-home series with a 6-1 victory Saturday...
...four tireless years writing to authorities the world over to verify birth and death dates and fill in biographical lacunae. The Vienna Bureau of Meteorology, for instance, helped him verify the fact that Beethoven died during a violent storm: the weather report of March 26, 1827 noted that a thunderstorm with heavy winds broke over the city at 4 p.m., shortly before Beethoven died...