Hitler’s Birthday, Poland’s Doom (Part 17)
Real Dictators
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The Greatest German
Hitler's quack injects the ailing president back to life, just enough for him at 3.55am to put his wobbly hand to the document of surrender. A giddy Hitler rushes out into the front office and invites his secretaries to kiss him. Later that day, wehrmacht Jackboots are trampling over Prague's medieval cobbles. This time, it's not a homecoming. There are no flowers. In a grim, sleet storm, the citizens look on with silence, with fear. Even the Nazis hadn't meant to push things quite this far.
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