7. to affect (a person, place, or thing) suddenly or adversely: his illness hit his wife very hard. 8. to become suddenly apparent to (a person): the reason for his behaviour hit me and made the whole episode clear. 9. to achieve or reach: to hit the jackpot; unemployment hit...
HITLER:“I will know neither rest nor peace until the November criminals [who, he falsely claimed, had ‘stabbed Germany in the back’ with the onerous Versailles Treaty of 1918] had been overthrown.” (Schirer quoting Hitler, p. 70) He banished or executed those who crossed him and surro...
1. (also intr) to gain possession of (something) by force or effort 2. to appropriate or steal: to take other people's belongings. 3. to receive or accept into a relationship with oneself: to take a wife. 4. to pay for or buy 5. to rent or lease: to take a flat in town...
The Nazi Officer's Wife/ / 2001-3出版 想读 在读 读过 简介 Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. Madly in love with a young man called Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was separated from him and sent to a forced labour camp. So began the...
Hitler committed suicide with wife Eva on April 30, 1945, in the bunker below the Reich Chancellery. His successor as Reich leader, Navy Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, told a downcast Himmler that there was no place for him in his own new government at Flensburg on the German-Dani...
According to Hanfstaegnl, he wasn’t worried about anything sexual because Hitler was acting more like a child, telling his wife that he’d like to get married but couldn’t because of his duty towards his country. Meanwhile, there is also talk of very disgusting and vulgar things that ...
Hitler had been murdering Jews right and left. I saw it, and I dream about it even to this day. The Jews needed some place where they could go. It is my attitude that the American government couldn’t stand idly by while the victims [of] Hitler’s madness are not allowed to build...
9 Politically barren they may have been, as his lonely voice struggled to awaken Britain to the menace of Hitler, but artistically those years bore abundant fruit: of the 500-odd Churchill canvases in existence, roughly half date from 1930 to 1939. ...
they described him as one of the best. It happened that we were both staying at the Grand Hotel and next day he asked me to dine with him. I met his wife, fat, elderly, and smiling, and his two daughters. It was evidently a unit...
The Halloween Apocalypse, prefixed with Chapter One in the title sequence, was the opening episode of series 13 of Doctor Who. It formed the first chapter of the six-part serial Doctor Who: Flux. This chapter introduced the Flux, a universe-breaking force which is bound for Earth, as ...