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Their tough leaders are Gestapomen like Heinrich Himmler, Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Kurt Daluege, who have mastered the technique of terrorism. If anybody can put fangs on fanatics, these professional killers will...
...Hollywood and divorced him, Fritz was immersed in the family arms business. His firm had a sharp reputation for circumventing the restrictions of the Allied Control Commissions. His own politics were opportunistic. Democracy, he said, "is a luxury that might be borne, perhaps, in prosperous periods." He backed Prince Ernst Riidiger von Starhemberg and his fascist Home Guard, bet on Dollfuss and Mussolini to stave off Hitler. In 1937 he saw the handwriting on the wall, deftly transferred his holdings abroad...
...small group of highly trained agents will operate in other countries, will propagandize for a square deal for Germans, then for the return of German property confiscated by Allied governments, eventually for the resurrection of German cartels and industrial strength. Masterminds of this plan are Himmler and Henchmen Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Wilhelm Schepmann (an organizer of anti-Allied sabotage in the Ruhr...
...Royal Scandal (20th Century-Fox) was originally a play called The Czarina, a distinctly minor example of the Budapest school of perky lubricity. Some 20 years ago Director Ernst Lubitsch turned it into Forbidden Paradise, one of the shrewdest high-comedies in screen history. Producer Lubitsch's new version, which is directed by Otto (Laura) Preminger, has its points too, most of which are named Tallulah Bankhead. But all told, they just about manage to get the show...
...Germany at the time of the famed Reichstag fire trial in 1933, and the Nazis tried to make him a scapegoat, along with dullard Marinus Van der Lubbe and German Communist Ernst Torgler. But they found Dimitroff too hot to handle. The flimsy case against him collapsed. Once again Moscow intervened, conferred Russian citizenship on the Bulgarian and obtained his release, then sent a plane to whisk him to his new home. He was hailed as a hero. Lenin's widow and sister sent him flowers. "I am a soldier of the revolution," Dimitroff said, "and will fight where...