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...days at Nürnberg, tall, intense ex-Gestapo agent Dr. Hans Bernd Gisevius "sang." He had some significant gossip to impart: in 1933 War Minister Field Marshal Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg (54, widowered father of five) met Erika Gruhn in one of Berlin's better brothels. Said Gisevius, she was licensed to ply her prostitute's trade in seven major cities, and, as a sideline, she sold pornographic literature. By 1938, she had acquired such influence over the Herr Minister that he decided to marry...
...happened that ambitious Hermann Goring was looking for an easy way to eliminate Blomberg, who was a lukewarm Nazi at best and might oppose schemes of conquest. Fraulein Gruhn was just what Goring needed. Goring was most helpful to Bridegroom Blomberg, even induced Hitler to come to the wedding. But as soon as the couple had left on their honeymoon, Goring took Frau von Blom-berg's police file to the Fuhrer. Hitler promptly flew into one of his tantrums and sacked Blomberg...
Died. Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, 67, who as Hitler's first Minister of War began to build up the almost-all-conquering Wehrmacht; of a heart attack; in Nürnberg. In 1938, ostensibly because he married his "socially impossible" stenographer, ardent Nazi von Blomberg lost his job at the insistence of the Officer Corps, spent World War II on Capri in retirement...
...five glassy-eyed locksmiths in the dock (three generals, two admirals) then heard Colonel Taylor read a damning affidavit by one of their own clique. Its author was Field Marshal Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg, who had been German War Minister until 1938, when he was given the boot, ostensibly for marrying a prostitute. Wrote Blomberg: ". . . There was no reason to oppose Hitler since he produced the results which [the generals] desired...
Plan Otto. The record read: in 1937 the Nazis began specific preparations for a two-front war. They told the people they were merely preparing to defend Germany. Yet the evidence showed that Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, as War Minister, had given this official appraisal...