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Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.
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war
history
hitler
third-reich
weapons
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William L. Shirer |
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At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was before we were transferred. Dachau was ever so much nicer than Auschwitz. But then, it was in the Reich. See my trophies there. The one in the middle, the big one. That was presented to me by the Reich Youth Leader himself, Baldur von Schirach. Let me show you my scrapbook.
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hate
dachau
banality
swimming
holocaust
third-reich
evil
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William Styron |
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"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( Dummkopf ) I was!"
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politics
fritz-thyssen
world-war-2
third-reich
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William L. Shirer |
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Ich war durch meine furchterliche Situation gezwungen, diese Spaltung in ein Ich Schwarz und ein Ich Weiss zumindest zu versuchen, um nicht erdruckt zu werden von dem grauenhaften Nichts um mich.
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personality
third-reich
thoughtful
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