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More significant was the fact Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today.”
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Japan during the same time added tens of millions of Chinese to her empire. Not the mere fact that the Führer brought 10,500,000 more people (7,000,000 Austrians, 3,500,000 Sudetens) under his absolute rule made him the Man of 1938. “But the figure of Adolf Hitler strode over a cringing Europe with all the swagger of a conqueror. The explanation, if true, is sure to disappoint many conspiracy theorists. Heads of state elsewhere in Europe seemed powerless to stop him. The mystery surrounding a video that appears to show a young woman talking on a cell phone in 1938 may be solved. When LIFE magazine published a preview piece on the trends that were expected to reign in the autumn of 1938, the editors focused much of their attention on one particular aspect of the coming season’s styles: namely, the indication that straight lines seemed to be giving way to a softeror, at the very least, a somewhat.
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How TIME Covered the News: The most-controversial Person of the Year cover, and the only one not to show the face of the person receiving the title, Adolf Hitler was made TIME’s Person of the Year in 1938 for influencing the year’s news most “for better or for ill.” That year, Hitler’s Third Reich sounded the drums of the epic war to come, annexing Austria and the Sudetenland, the term for predominantly German-speaking areas in Czechoslovakia. Cover Story: Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938