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...know or recognize truth for truth's sake or science for science's sake." The author of this statement, Dr. Ernst Krieck, is rector of Heidelberg. Between 1933-38 university enrollment dropped from 200,000 to just over 70,000. A worried military gazette reported: "Cadets show a striking inability to think logically...
Visit of the Spirit. In 1939 the late German ace and parachute expert, Ernst Udet, visited Japan and inspected the Japanese Air Force. He is said to have reported to Hermann Goring that Japanese flyers, though brave and willing, were no sky-beaters. Part of the trouble was technical, part organizational. In 1940 Tomoyuki Yamashita was given his big chance, the job of reorganizing the Japanese Air Force. To his mind, the first thing to do was see how the Germans...
...Organization of Germans Living Abroad (the AO; under Ernst Wilhelm Bohle...
Last week an official announcement said that Colonel General Ernst Udet, Quartermaster of the German Air Force, was killed "yesterday" (Nov. 17) while testing "a new type of firearm." The same day the Berlin radio attributed his death to an "airplane accident on Monday, the eleventh," said he died en route to a hospital. Reports from Vichy said he was a suicide. Many a U.S. airman and war veteran could recall Ernst Udet as a stumpy, laughing, likeable little man with a thirst for beer and information, a man of many questions who carefully avoided questioners. The last photograph...
...Ernst Wilhelm Bohle at 31 undertook to execute Hess's idea that everyone can and must spy. By 1937 he had the services of 70,000 to 100,000 sailors on German ships and of some 3,000.000 German "housemaids, grocery clerks, beauty-parlor operators, nurses, chauffeurs, opera singers, bookkeepers," who lived abroad. Their work: In weekly reports, the answering of "hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands" of questions: questions not only military and economic, but intimately worming forth the subtlest anthropological details of civilian psychology, habit, morale. This information was screened for its gold-dust in the consulates...