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...tears when watching films of the concentration camps. Some U.S. veterans' groups were upset that Reagan would visit any cemetery where Hitler's elite troops were buried. "I never thought I'd see the day when Ronald Reagan could get the American Legion angry at him," noted one U.S. diplomat, "but, by God, we've done...
...German peace feeler was a desperate maneuver by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, the police and the concentration camps, who had escaped from Berlin to the north German port of Lübeck. There he told a diplomat from neutral Sweden that Germany was willing to surrender to the Americans and British. At worst, Himmler thought, this would enable Germany to throw all its troops against the Soviets; at best, the Western Allies would join the German defense. Himmler seems even to have cherished the illusion that the Allies would support him, the lord of the Holocaust...
Truman's reaction to Himmler's offer was acerbic. "Has he anything to surrender?" the new President asked Churchill on the transatlantic telephone. The two quickly agreed to tell the Swedish diplomat (and to reassure " the ever suspicious Stalin) that Germany must surrender unconditionally to all the Allies. No more was heard from Himmler. Inside the Berlin bunker, Hitler denounced him as a traitor. He dismissed Himmler from his government positions and expelled him from the Nazi Party...
...build a new economic foundation. From the East came the threat represented by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet despot whose Red Army divided the Continent in half, and who spurred movement toward greater unity in the West through his cold war policies. Says Andre de Staercke, a former Belgian diplomat: "We should build a statue to Stalin in every public square in Europe, because he showed us the danger [of disunity...
Just two years ago, Dave Lieberman was an aspiring diplomat in the department of political science at Yale. But one April morning in 2003, as he walked out of a class on the cold war, he flipped on his cell phone and found six new messages that sent him in a radically different direction. "Three from publishers, two from TV stations. Oh, and Letterman," he recalls. Jay Leno phoned later. They all wanted to know more about Campus Cuisine, Lieberman's public-access cooking show that had been mentioned in that day's New York Times. "I had no idea...