Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American people. This involves the idea that all we need for success is to get organized and wait for someone to "articulate a purpose" for us. This hen-and-chickens kind of thinking led the Germans into a disastrous war under the leadership of an articulate, power-mad Hitler...
...issue of Jan. 2, 1928. He was Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who eight months before had soloed the Atlantic in 33½ hours. Since then, the annual choice by TIME'S editors has become a journalistic tradition. The choice is neither an accolade nor a moral judgment: Hitler was Man of the Year in 1938. Nor is a symbolic figure ruled out: the American Fighting-man was the choice for the Korean War year of 1950 and the Hungarian Freedom Fighter was chosen for 1956. There have been two Women of the Year-Wallis Warfield Simpson for 1936, Queen Elizabeth...
Most West Germans have dropped their recollections of Hitler's Reich down a convenient memory hole and are disinclined to resurrect them. To make sure that they are nonetheless nudged from time to time is the task of a small but diligent scholarly organization with the innocuous name Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History), housed in a quiet, three-story house in Munich, the city where Hitler got his start...
...evening of Feb. 27, 1933, just a month after Hitler's coming to power, Berlin police entered the flaming Reichstag building and arrested one Marinus van der Lubbe, a shambling young Dutchman and avowed Communist who boasted that he had started the blaze himself. Using popular indignation over the fire, Hitler arrested 4,000 Communist officials that night. The next night Chancellor Hitler persuaded aging President von Hindenburg to suspend all constitutional liberties. Communist Party gatherings and newspapers were banned, and the ban was later extended to the Socialist press. In the election a week later, Hitler...
Later, at a great show trial before the German Supreme Court in Leipzig, one of the key witnesses was Prussia's Minister President Hermann Göring (later Hitler's portly air marshal), who testified that the Reichstag fire resulted from a well-planned Communist conspiracy. Van der Lubbe, who acted like an idiot during the trial. was sentenced to death and executed. But Bulgarian Communist Codefendant Georgi Dimitrov-later to become Communist boss of Bulgaria and then fall from Stalin's favor for Titoism-and three other prominent Communists had to be freed for lack...