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Clearly or dimly, most Germans realized that Himmler was the new master of the Third Reich. Last October, Himmler himself had told how Germany would" be defended: "Every village, every house, every farm, every ditch, every forest and every bush." As Adolf Hitler's longtime chief butcher, torturer, spy and slavemaster, Heinrich Himmler is the archetype of the top Nazi who cannot surrender. Now, while keeping Hitler as the Führer symbol, Himmler does the dictator's job of maintaining Germany at war. Around himself and his henchmen he has formed the last granite-hard core...
...took a long time to butcher them. The enclosure was a mile and a half long, and when a buffalo was shot, the rest ran the length of it, stayed there until Butters caught up again. A blizzard blew up, and coyotes gathered to jeer from the hilltops...
...noted here that apart from all the other hardships endured by women in this war the small humiliations of shopping have been the most difficult to bear. N. Gubbins, Esq. can remember a day when his life partner smiled up into the face of a butcher and begged for a bone to make some soup. When he replied : 'I believe you had a bone a fortnight ago. There are other people who want bones besides you,' there were murmurs of approval from other women in the shop and the life partner of N. Gubbins, Esq., retired in confusion...
...Assistant Superintendent W. S. Neil knocked & knocked at the Scott door. He got no answer. Breaking in, he stumbled over an assortment of bloody articles: an ax, a hammer, two butcher knives, a shotgun barrel-and James Scales's discarded clothes. The bodies of Superintendent Scott's dying wife and dead 19-year-old daughter lay on the floor...
Nobody Knows. Otto Wilson watched the woman take off her chartreuse suit and fold it neatly across a chair. When he hit her she fell across the bed. He choked her until she stopped breathing; then pulled her to the floor. After he took the butcher knife from his coat pocket he lighted a cigaret and drank from a bottle of whiskey. Then he knelt, knife in hand...