Down Memory Lane - Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938 - Time Magazine

[malaise]

https://time.com/archive/6598257/adolf-hitler-man-of-the-year-1938/


Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler.
Führer of the German people, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Navy & Air Force, Chancellor of the Third Reich, Herr Hitler reaped on that day at Munich the harvest of an audacious, defiant, ruthless foreign policy he had pursued for five and a half years. He had torn the Treaty of Versailles to shreds. He had rearmed Germany to the teeth— or as close to the teeth as he was able. He had stolen Austria before the eyes of a horrified and apparently impotent world.
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Here’s hoping this one also ends with suicide

That is all

[Lonestarblue]

1. Excellent comparison. Time's person of the year is not always an accolade.

[malaise]

2. Yep

[usonian]

3. Nice track record.

There are more.

[malaise]

6. Indeed

Well he craved it more than most

[DinahMoeHum]

4. ". . .for better or for worse. . ."

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is the only criteria Time magazine uses

They give this to
a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year"

It is NOT a humanitarian citation.

[malaise]

5. Correct n/t

[mitch96]

7. 1938? and 7 years later he put a bullet thru his head after killing MILLIONS of people...nt