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...Republic. On the evening of Jan. 30, 1933, the boots of the brown-clad Storm Troops beat like thudding drums along the Wilhelmstrasse beneath a flaming canopy of torches. Leaning far out over the Reich's Chancellery balcony, Adolf Hitler, with sparkling eyes, watched them march past. Battalion after battalion swung by, bands crashing out the song Die Fahne Hoch. ... In a nearby window, a rocklike silhouette, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg gazed on the parade with age-dimmed eyes...
Into the Army in Manhattan went Prince Gaëtan de Bourbon-Parme, 37-year-old brother of former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, week after the induction of his nephews (Archdukes) Felix and Charles Ludwig. The nephews will probably wind up in the much-criticized battalion of Austrian nationals promoted by brother Pretender Otto, but Uncle Gaëtan, a descendant of Louis XIV, is a French citizen and ineligible...
...Africa, according to a letter received by Colonel F. A. Doniat, head of the Mil Sci Department. Lieutenant Eugene J. Reilly '42 wrote that he had taken part in the first landings in North Africa and that a second '42 man, Lt. George L. Snow, had recently joined the battalion...
Into the Army at Virginia's Fort Myer went (Archduke) Felix Habsburg, 26, brother (Archduke) Charles Ludwig, 24, brothers of Austrian Pretender Otto. Enlistment being out, they had "volunteered for immediate 'induction," will probably be assigned to the new U.S. battalion of Austrians after preliminary training at Camp...
Into the turmoil flowed a tidal wave of Axis power. The extended Allied columns staggered back. In a woods below an 1,800-ft.-high ridge, one battalion of a Hampshire Regiment made a gallant and futile stand. For four days and four nights it held out, raked by German artillery planted on the hill. Heavy tanks, followed by infantry, lumbered around its flanks...