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...Problems facing the military government were as complicated as is the entire issue of Austria. To begin with, the Nazis had burned all the city records, including food-rationing files. Worst of all was the fact that Salzburg had always been plagued with a strong element of ardent Nazis, whose numbers were augmented by thousands who streamed in from Germany...
Died. Denyse Clairouin, raven-haired French literary agent, translator of D. H. Lawrence and Tagore, and an ardent organizer of anti-Nazi resistance; of pneumonia (on March 12 but just reported), contracted when the Nazis gave her a brutal five-day ride in an open freight car from the Ravensbruck to the Mulhausen concentration camps...
Furthermore, the President told his visitors that he would welcome a meeting with General Charles de Gaulle. (This week Foreign Minister Bidault announced that such a meeting would take place "soon.") In sum, these moves represented the most ardent U.S. overture made to France since the liberation. Said a formal White House statement: "A strong France represents a gain to the world...
...signs indicated that Heinrich Himmler, after Hitler the No. i symbol of Naziism, had handed over the reins only when, and because, his efforts to surrender separately had failed. Donitz was an ardent Nazi, but the Allies knew him chiefly as an all-too-brilliant naval commander. He, too, failed to win a separate peace, but he had the satisfaction of seeing most of his Navy give up to the British. Only after the last German step had been taken according to German plan was an Allied check placed upon the maneuvers of Donitz and his associates in the last...
...Were all the outstanding ardent anti-Nazis of Germany liquidated? Is anything left of the German Socialist Party (once biggest in the world) or the German Communist Party (biggest outside Russia...