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Eva Braun
Eva Braun , 1912-45, mistress and later wife of the German dictator Adolf Hitler. She was a shop assistant to a Nazi photographer, through whom she met Hitler. She entered his household in 1936, although their relationship was kept secret. She had no influence on the government. Hitler married her... Read more |
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Karl Doenitz
Karl Doenitz , 1891-1980, German admiral. He secretly planned a German submarine fleet in the years following the Treaty of Versailles, was given command of submarine operations by Adolf Hitler in 1935, and replaced Admiral Raeder in 1943 as chief naval commander. On the announcement (May 1, 1945)... Read more |
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Gestapo
Gestapo ¦ ADRIENNE WILMOTH LERNER The Geheime Staatspolizei, or Gestapo, a German secret police force, was created in 1933 after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. The Gestapo was created to help solidify Nazi control by identifying and arresting anti-Nazi... Read more |
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Erich Raeder
Erich Raeder , 1876-1960, German admiral. As chief of staff to Admiral Franz von Hipper in World War I, he took part in the battles of Dogger Bank (1915) and Jutland (1916). Appointed (1928) commander of the German navy, Raeder secretly rebuilt the navy in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. He... Read more |
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Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler , 1900-1945, German Nazi leader. An early member of the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party, Himmler took part in Adolf Hitler's "beer-hall putsch" of 1923, and in 1929 Hitler appointed him head of the SS, or Schutzstaffel, the party's black-shirted elite corps.... Read more |
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NSA (United States National Security Agency)
NSA (United States National Security Agency) ¦ JUDSON KNIGHT Legendary for its secrecy, the National Security Agency (NSA) is the leading cryptologic organization in the United States intelligence community. Focused on cryptologic and cryptanalytic missions, it is the ... Read more |
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Intrinsic factor
intrinsic factor n. a glycoprotein secreted in the stomach. The secretion of intrinsic factor is necessary for the absorption of vitamin B12; a failure of secretion leads to a deficiency of the vitamin and the condition of pernicious anaemia.... Read more |
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thyroid gland
thyroid gland endocrine gland, situated in the neck, that secretes hormones necessary for growth and proper metabolism. It consists of two lobes connected by a narrow segment called the isthmus. The lobes lie on either side of the trachea, the isthmus in front of it. Thyroid tissue is composed of... Read more |
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Prolactin
prolactin (lactogenic hormone; luteotrophic hormone; luteotrophin) A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland. In mammals it stimulates the mammary glands to secrete milk (see lactation) and the corpus luteum of the ovary to secrete the hormone progesterone. Secretion of prolactin is... Read more |
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Stalin, Josef
...circumstances where it was possible. Unlike Adolf Hitler, however, he was not driven to advance where it was inexpedient, much less to court or initiate war. This was...been built up by Stalin, but in a secret speech denounced his crimes against... |
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Adolf Hitler's sexual secret
...proven testament from at least one male person who actually...power of spin. Although Hitler appears to have conducted...proof of the "awkward secret", either then or since...world publics knew, Hitler was the epitome of masculine...recent estimates indicate ... |
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Niels Bohr was stunned about fellow German scientist's role in Adolf Hitler's...
...shocked to learn about Adolf Hitler' s secret atomic bomb program headed...Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German...when he told him about Hitler's atomic bomb program...years working more or less exclusively on ... |
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The Hitler shrine: a luxury hotel has opened next to the site of Adolf...
...ruins of the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat...inadvertently become Germany's secret shrine to Adolf Hitler. Eighty-two years ago this spring Adolf Hitler, then a thirty...the Obersalzberg was ... |
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AT HOME WITH HITLER.(Adolf Hitler's profile by the CIA)(Brief Article)
From a secret profile of Adolf Hitler compiled by the U.S...PERSONAL APPEARANCE Hitler is meticulous about his...the smell of gasoline. Hitler always objected to Dr...who disliked Hitler's little mustache, ... |
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How Queen Mum kept Duke in exile; EXPLOSIVE British and American spy...
...from returning to Britain after his 1936 abdication. Former secret files reveal that Stanley Baldwin, the Bewdleyborn Prime Minister...follows the death last year of the Queen Mother and contain little material relating to her role, if any, in the Abdication... |
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Adolf Hitler's "unrequited love" for Britain
...Times London, April 1 -- Adolf Hitler wanted to be friends with...briefing paper, marked Most Secret, Hitler "wanted Anglo-German...overseas - temporarily at least.But this has not worked...Munich Agreement,when Hitler's ... |
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Adolf and the New York Nazi; ***** The Unknown Hitler by Ernst Hanfstaengl...
...campfollowers who hung around Adolf Hitler in Munich in the...nickname, meaning 'little one', stuck with...patronisingly - his less refined ways, such...Putzi dropped out of Hitler's entourage, returning...Press and cultivate ... |
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I was a child of Hitler's sinister plan to create a master race; AMAZING...
...lifts the lid on her secret past as one of Adolf Hitler's Lebensborn children...target and under the secret programme were often...gave them food and a little bit of a treat in life...go home without that little girl. She is ... |
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Franco, Hitler & the play for Gibraltar: how the Spanish held firm on the...
...111s, the last of Adolf Hitler's military materiel...Comintern Pact and secret protocols on entering the war with Hitler and Benito Mussolini...and liked them even less when they allied themselves...Franco was indebted to ... |
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Niels Bohr was stunned about fellow German scientist's role in Hitler's...
...shocked to learn about Adolf Hitler' s secret atomic bomb program headed...Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German...when he told him about Hitler's atomic bomb program...years working more or less exclusively on ... |
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