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...Erika von Blomberg, 35, whose marriage to the late Nazi War Minister Werner von Blomberg got him fired in 1938 (he met her in one of Berlin's tonier brothels), announced happily that she had lately got a number of marriage proposals by mail. She didn't say what her answers had been...
...suitors had seen Erika's photo in the U.S. press (see cut), and the proposals, she said, came from Americans-mostly gentlemen of the Old South...
...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...
...whole thing was a Nazi conspiracy. She admitted that Goring had helped eliminate one of her lovers ("I wanted to marry this other man but Von Blomberg was crazy for me"). Even Hitler had been friendly at first. "He was really a man women could go for," mused Erika, ". . . with his dark hair and restless eyes...
...literary wiseacres were already guessing at the author's identity. Nobody guessed right. Suspected authors of Escape soon could have formed a sizable club. Chief suspects: Rebecca West, Erika Mann, Dorothy Thompson, I.A.R. Wylie...