Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other great factor: "Failure of the enemy to make the most of the situation." The German High Command-almost incredibly, but on the best of evidence-had no overall strategic plan. Wrangling between Hitler and his generals, lack of coordination between the Axis powers had wrecked what might have been a conquest of the world. Japan's strategic plan, its climax an invasion of the Aleutians, bombardment of the U.S. Northwest and seizure of critical areas, had "initially failed when she missed the opportunity of landing troops on Hawaii." George Marshall made it crystal clear that...
From the Stratosphere. But this overwhelming manpower was not mobilized until almost too late. When Hitler first massed his forces, the U.S., "in Terms of available strength, [was] not even a third rate military power." The next time such a thing happened, Marshall indicated, almost too late would be too late. He lifted the lid on some secrets to give emphasis to his warning. He quoted from a report of General of the Army Henry Arnold, boss of the Air Forces...
...driven home to them in a thousand little failures. Americans were losing face, Germans recovering their arrogance. They sometimes spoke to U.S. officers with their hands in their pockets, a sign of gross disrespect in Germany. They openly mocked the G.I.'s kidding, gum-chewing, easygoing ways. Former Hitler Youth even joined "Resistance Clubs" to fight the foreigners...
...list of those indicted was a Nazi Who's Who: former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, Air Minister Hermann Göring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Labor Boss Robert Ley, Nazi Philosopher-in-Chief Alfred Rosenberg, and many another. Missing were Adolf Hitler (supposedly dead), Joseph Goebbels (reported dead), Heinrich Himmler (dead), and elusive Martin Bormann, one of Hitler's closest aides. On the assumption that Bormann was still on the loose, although he was supposed to have died with the Führer, military police were still searching for him all over Europe...
...Hitler tolerated no such experimental painting, sculpture or architecture. The Nazi-approved paintings were technically excellent, detailed, naturalistic studies like Stepp Hilz's tired pin-up girl Vanity. Hitler's favorite sculptor, Arno Breker, had ground out dozens of gladiators whose muscles, wrote Kirstein,. "seem pushed to explosion, the brows scowl in furrows with sincere paranoiac delusion. But they are not impressive...