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- 401: George Patton
- ... mould the fledgling 3rd Army into one of the greatest fighting forces in American history. The 3rd Army was not used during Operation Overlord (the invasion of France) but still served a useful purpose, since Hitler and many members of the Abwehr (German military intelligence) believed that Normandy could not be the primary invasion site if Patton was not committed to the battle. The German command, therefore, held back critical Panzer ...
- 402: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... invaided with the code names;Omaha, Utah, Gold, Sword, and Juno ("The beaches of..." 28). In the endDwight D. Eisenhower led the Allies to victory on June 6,1944. IfEisenhower had made a wrong choice, Hitler would have continued to rainV-1 & V-2 rockets on London (Benson 7). Eisenhower had nowsuccessfully completed the most important invasion in history wiping out allmost 100% of German units. Luckily Allied forces only suffered ...
- 403: Dimitri Shostakovich
- ... expression, was channeled into a musical language of the utmost directness." (Schwartz) Testimony: the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, exposed as a hoax in 1980 by Dr. Laurel E. Fay, is a fake "autobiography" (a la "Hitler's Diaries") created by defector Solomon Volkov. While it has been long discredited, it continues to poison the legitimacy of Shostakovich study. My first experience with Shostakovich was last summer at Interlochen Arts Camp in ...
- 404: Benito Mussolini
- ... in 1939, and he laid claim to Malta, Corsica, and, Tunis. He sent Italian troops to help defeat the republicans in the Spanish Civil War. His fatal mistake was his alliance with Germanys Adolf Hitler in 1939. During World War II his armies were swept from Ethiopia and North Africa; and when the Allies invaded Italy in 1943, Mussolini was thrown out by the Fascist Grand Council and imprisoned in ...
- 405: Anne Frank
- ... this diary that much about World War II and Annes life has been learned. In 1933, her and her family left Frankfurt, a large Jewish community, and settled in Amsterdam. Her father foresaw that Hitlers power boded disaster for the Jews. In May 1940, the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands took place, which cast a shadow on Annes happy childhood. The situation became worse with the restrictions placed ...
- 406: Nostradamus - The Man
- Nostradamus For four centuries Nostradamus's prophecies have inspired fear and controversy. His followers say he predicted the French Revolution, the birth and rise of Hitler, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Did he, as his believers claim, predict some of history's most monumental events - from the Great Fire of London to the launch disaster of the space shuttle ...
- 407: Machiavelli And Plato
- ... out the guidelines to be implemented however distorted the interpretation the actual process can be followed in today s society. A bad example due to excess of evil within the leader would be that of Hitler s Third Reich dictatorship. Although undoubtedly negative the process is more convincing an argument because the results can be achieved. But Plato s Utopia traces could only be seen in ancient times such as Ancient ...
- 408: Kosovo And Milosevic
- ... interview with Newsweek s Lally Weymouth, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer bluntly linked Milosevic with the two names whose shadows still linger over modern Europe. Milosevic, said Fischer, "was ready to act like Stalin and Hitler to fight a war against the existence of a whole people." It is Milosevic who has lit the flame of evil; if it is to be put out, he needs to be understood. The year ...
- 409: Josef Stalin
- ... which touched virtually every family. The USSR suffered greatly in World War II and Stalin personally directed the war against Nazi Germany, despite the fact that in 1938 he signed the Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler. This bought the Soviet Union two years respite from involvement in World War II. But after the German invasion (1941), the USSR became a member of the Grand Alliance, and Stalin, as the war general ...
- 410: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... books Sometimes, the "firemen" are able to carry out their objective - Preventing books from being read - without actually consigning volumes to the flames. In 1996, St. Martin's Press decided to publish a biography of Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels written by David Irving, a popular albeit controversial British historian. St. Martin's Press publisher Thomas Dunne issued the following angry statement after receiving dozens of protests against his plans ...
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