Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homeland the Germans had built deeper, more elaborate defenses, had strengthened them for the last year with more than a million men of the Todt organization. Swedish reporters talked learnedly of a new German "rolling defense" fathered by Field Marshal Heinz Guderian, eastern front commander, now fully restored to Adolf Hitler's fitful favor. Already emplaced in whole provinces, enormous masses of movable concrete bunkers of eight to 15 tons, called "scorpions," formed "tank landscapes." Before them were six or eight zones of mine blockades including contact mines of glass, controlled mines fired by wire or radio. Enthroned...
Although House grid practices this week have been light and confined easily to conditioning work and signal drills, assistant athletic director Adolf Samborski expects that by the first of next week, at least a hundred men will be working...
Never a strong reed, Hungary wilted quickly in the hot breath of war. For the government of Admiral Nicholas Horthy the Russian Army, Allied air attacks and the perceptible shrinking of German power were too much. This week Horthy, once the willing slave of Adolf Hitler, took to the Budapest radio, asked for an armistice less than a month after Russians crossed the border. A few hours later the Germans reportedly locked him up. Berlin also installed a new quisling, began barricading Budapest. Hungary was apparently to become another Italy...
...Adolf Hitler, who had done what centuries of British and Russians had failed to do-bring Britain and Russia together...
...London Clipper last week brought to Manhattan a copy of the first dispassionate and detailed account of music in Adolf Hitler's Germany. The Baton and the Jackboot by Berta Geissmar (Hamish Hamilton; 155) is the record of a Mannheim Jewess who managed to stay in the midst of Nazi musical politics until her escape from Germany before the war. Miss Geissmar was secretary of the Berlin Philharmonic. Her book gives an intimate picture of one of Nazi Germany's two world-famed musical figures, Conductor Wilhelm FurtwĠngler (the other: Composer Richard Strauss...