Word: hitlerized
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...memoir began the 1930s as a journalistic adventurer of 26, jauntily evading an English blockade of the Khyber Pass to reach Afghanistan. By 1940 he regarded himself as middleaged, worn by work, fear and revulsion, after several years of broadcasting and writing from within the increasingly brutal world of Hitler's Germany...
Volume II has no such liability. Few Americans were on the scene as the Third Reich took form. Shirer was in Berlin, and accompanied Hitler and his entourage to Paris when the Petain government surrendered in 1940. At the start he was a newspaperman; Edward R. Murrow hired him away in 1937 to be the other half of CBS Radio's staff in Europe. Shirer's journalistic credentials eventually brought him invitations to the bizarre Nazi Bierabends (get-togethers over beer) organized for the press by Alfred Rosenberg, the official Nazi philosopher. Hermann Göring would circulate...
...with the Soviet Union. It is sobering to reflect on what might have happened on the beaches of France had the cream of Germany's armed forces not been destroyed by the Soviets at Stalingrad in 1942 and at Kursk in 1943. The beginning of the end for Hitler started much earlier than Dday, and it started in the Soviet Union, not France...
Would we ally ourselves today with the Soviet Union to fight a right-wing dictator? We now support oppressors like Augusto Pinochet in Chile as long as they are anti-Soviet. If this were prewar 1938, we would be looking for a similar deal with Hitler...
...Calais, not in Normandy. Stuttgart Mayor Manfred Rommel, whose father Field Marshall Erwin Rommel commanded the German Atlantic defenses, called D-day "one of the various great defeats in history." But Rommel felt no sense of slight. Reminding West Germans that "it was better to lose the war with Hitler than to win it with Hitler," he said, "I think it's quite in order that the Allies have their celebration...