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...wanted to. As the editor of the Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter he predicted that when Hitler came to power "Jewish bodies will hang from every telegraph pole between Munich and Berlin." Above all, he incessantly repeated that Bolsheviks were "Jewish criminals" and that the German path of conquest lay logically to the East, towards Soviet Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Birthdays | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...early last year Adolf Hitler had already shown the world that his bag of tricks was not bottomless. Instead of winning another bloodless conquest in Poland, he ran his land empire at last afoul the sea empire of Britain-and into an expensive, probably long and debilitating war which may well end disastrously for him and his country. The Allies have not cracked his Westwall-but he has not cracked their Maginot Line. His vaunted air fleet has not leveled Britain, as advertised, and once again Germany finds herself dangerously blockaded by the British Fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Man of the Year, 1939 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Author Heriat got his U. S. material when Actor Charles Boyer called him to Hollywood as historical supervisor of Conquest. Himself an actor on the Paris stage and for various European movie companies, Heriat prefers a suede zipper jacket to a uniform, has lately been transferred from the Goncourt subway station to the post of censor at the Hotel Continental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goncourt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...predicament was reflected by the Oslo Aftenposten, which suggested that the U. S. help Finland with munitions, airplanes and fliers, since "no European State can effectively help Finland." In that the Aftenposten was mistaken. The only State in the world which surely can save Scandinavia from Russian conquest is Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Help Wanted | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Germany, which claimed title by right of conquest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Duns | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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