Word: nazidom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munich, heart of Nazidom and Germany's third largest city, was torn by revolution but fought savagely nevertheless. The U.S. Seventh Army had plunged 20 miles through defenseless countryside to the outskirts of the old city where Adolf Hitler hatched his movement in a beer hall. Then suddenly nests of SS men had exploded into action and forced the Americans to battle their...
...Then, in the deepening darkness, the battle of the dinosaurs began-Germany leaped at the throat of Russia. The cigar chewer had never been a friend of totalitarianism in any form. Now he spoke to the world over the air: "Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler...
Promptly the Gestapo clapped a price of 1,000,000 marks on the head of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, longtime Oberbürger-meister (Lord Mayor) of Leipzig, and Price Controller of the Reich under Brüming and again in the first years of Nazidom. A confidant of industrialists, old Reichswehr officers and big-shot civil servants, Goerdeler was linked with" a nationalist underground involving Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schacht. Goerdeler vanished on the day the Gestapo tried to pick him up. This might be a sign of the extent and organization of the anti-Nazi group. But in the dissolving...
There was no way last week for the world to know what orders were going to the German front commanders from the tottering, feuding citadel of Nazidom. It was possible that most German commanders were making their own decisions whether to fight, flee or quit. At this climax of the war, it made little difference what they chose...
...Most staggering conversion was that of hitherto fiercely anti-Christian Dr. Alfred Rosenberg (whose pagan activities were condemned by the late Pope Pius XI). Nazidom's No. 1 heathen preached a stirring Christian sermon: "Never before have millions upon millions faced death as now. What is life? ... Is it a mirage, only existing in our minds? . . . Is it a theater in which we appear as puppets, playing dramas and comedies to amuse? We do not know whom: God or Satan? Two thousand years ago a miracle occurred and Christ gave us an answer. Even those who did not believe...