Word: 246ring
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...Berchtesgaden, G&246ring added, the SS seized him and would have killed him if loyal Luftwaffe men had not rescued him. Just when he found time to arrange the loading of a 20-car armored train with looted art and treasure, G&246ring...
...Prosecution. The stories of G&246ring's treatment angered a lot of Britons and Americans. "Once and for all," cried the London News Chronicle, "Hermann G&246ring is an evil, cruel murderer." In the U.S., the usually mild Christian Science Monitor thundered: "Here is no captive entitled to the usual military courtesies. This man has murdered and plundered on an international scale." Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman D. J. Flood: "This schweehturnie...
...feel that a dignitary of his importance should have been taken straight to General Eisenhower. After his first, bemedaled showing in news pictures, later photographs revealed him in a dingy uniform, without medals (see cut}. In London, the molasses-slow United Nations War Crimes Commission classed Hermann G&246ring as a No. 1 war criminal, said that he faced "an airtight case" on at least eight counts...
...death. He gave an order to the other three men-it was not clear to whom he gave it, or whether he actually meant it as an order to one of them specifically. He said: 'You must go to southern Germany, form a government, and G&246ring will be my successor. G&246ringwird verhandeln-G&246ring will negotiate...
Vague & Uncertain. "Whether this last statement was an order or a prophecy, no one knows. He might have said it in a spirit of resignation, realizing that if G&246ring were to succeed him, he would undertake negotiations. He might also have meant it as a direct order to negotiate after his death. The F&252hrer was by now rather vague and uncertain, giving no direct orders, apparently preoccupied with the prospect of his own imminent death...