Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this façade is deceptive. Behind it hides a strong and active mind, a harshness of will and temper. Ability and toughness brought Junker von Manstein, with his discipline and logic, close to plebeian Adolf Hitler, with his psychoses and intuition. Hitler must have respect for this good soldier. Manstein may have no respect for his Führer, but he bears him loyalty as the chief of state...
...Year's Day, 1941, when the blitz against London was in full swing, Adolf Hitler predicted: "The year will bring the completion of the greatest victory in our history." A year later, while the U.S. was still reeling from the shock of Pearl Harbor, the Führer said: "1942 will bring the decision for the salvation of our nation. . . ." Last year he cried: "The day will come when one of the contending parties in this struggle will. collapse. It will not be Germany." As 1944 opened he said: "In this war there will be no victors...
Early this week the R.A.F. was back at work, boring through freezing gales and heavy opposition. Stockholm heard that Adolf Hitler's proud Chancellery was wrecked, hundreds of Berliners trapped in the vast shelter built underneath the block-long, grey stone building...
...Adolf Hitler issued his fifth New Year's proclamation of the war last week. His recognition of defeat was implicit; implicit also was a plea to Britain to save the Germans from Russia, leave them in a position of European power. With his usual mixture of truth and propaganda, he argued that: 1) Britain's balance-of-power-position in Europe has been lost (which many Britons have also said); 2) European stability requires "the existence of a dominating Continental power" (which nearly all Britons believe to be true-provided that the power is not too dominant...
...Hitler's strength even in despair, a testimony to his sense of oneness with the German people (always excepting those whom he has confined, abused, murdered). Its awkward rationalizations might seem absurd to free Britons and Americans; they did not seem absurd to Germans who remembered, with Adolf Hitler, the penalties of defeat in World War I, and who now suffered the agonies of defeat in the skies...