Word: brauns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nibelung Nonsense. British Historian Trevor-Roper, whose book is the August co-choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, picks up the pieces where Gisevius drops them and reconstructs a Wagnerian drama of the suicide "love death" of Hitler and Eva Braun. His evidence, gathered from documents and survivors, is circumstantial but pretty convincing. From the Führer-bunker, deep under the Reich Chancellery garden, the war "was directed by somnambulist decisions," he says. Russian shells crashed down overhead; Berlin was almost surrounded; in G.I. slang, the doomed party leaders were getting "bunker happy." Hitler himself deteriorated rapidly...
...bunkermates weren't on the side of history's angel. During the night of April 27-28, "Hitler called his court around him, and in this macabre conclave all rehearsed their plans for suicide." Only SS General Fegelein, Eva Braun's brother-in-law, declined: "He had not secured his adoption into the family in order to burn on the family pyre." He escaped from the bunker but was captured and shot. Early in the morning of April 30, Hitler married Eva Braun. (She supplied, says the author, "that ideal of restfulness . . . for which his bourgeois soul...
When the Russians were storming Stettin, 50 miles southeast of Peenemünde, blond, husky Dr. Werner von Braun, research director of E.W., had on his desk "five orders from the High Command telling me to stay at Peenemünde, and five orders, also from the High Command, telling me to move." He consulted his staff, decided to "go with the West," i.e., toward the British and American armies...
...were other prizes. When the Red Army crunched toward Berlin in April 1945, Dr. Anselm Franz, handsome, Austrian-born and 46, was head of research and development at the great Junkers plant which produced the 0-4 jet engine at Dessau in what is now the Russian zone. Like Braun, he called his top men together. Their unanimous decision: "We want with the West...
Undone. In Hobart, Okla., Dr. J. P. Braun, delivering twins, felt a crucial safety pin come loose, gamely finished the job trouserless...