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...hours on July 20, 1944, Nazi Germany's fate hung on a 32-year-old Wehrmacht major named Otto Ernst Remer. On that day, believing that their plot to kill Hitler had succeeded,* the mutineers occupied the War Ministry in Berlin and flashed the code word Walkure to all Wehrmacht units. On its receipt, commanders throughout Germany were to break open sealed orders directing them to arrest Nazi and SS officials and occupy their headquarters. Germany would at last throw off Naziism...
Austria's prewar democracy had many pallbearers, but the most prominent, after Adolf Hitler, was a good-looking young blueblood named Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. He was a fascist when the world barely knew what the word meant. In 1923, he stood by Hitler's side in the unsuccessful Munich beer hall Putsch. Back in Austria, he was fond of bleating such sentiments as: "We have much in common with the German Nazis . . . Austria will go fascist sooner or later. Better sooner than later . . . Asiatic heads [meaning Jews] will soon roll in the sands...
...second and best part, "The Gentlemen Killers," focuses on World War I. "For a short time," writes Jensen, "a rather warped form of chivalry existed which made it poor form to fire on an opponent whose guns or engine were not functioning properly." The German ace, Ernst Udet, remembers how his French peer, Georges Guynemer, refused to fire when Udet's guns jammed. And Floyd Gibbons vibrates excitedly over the death of the greatest German ace of World War I, Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
Sorcerer's Apprentice. In West Berlin, Germany, Ernst Bogelsack sneaked into town from the Soviet Zone, hid in a public lavatory until the attendant left, removed the brass water taps from the sinks in order to sell them in the black market, immediately loosed a flood, tried to get out but found the doors locked, howled for help until a passing police patrol broke in and rescued him from the rising waters, by then neck-deep...
...hrer, Christmas, 1938, in which year he twice overran borders in order to bring back German territory into the Reich." Among half a dozen other books from the Führer's personal library: autographed first editions by Authors Alfred Rosenberg, Joseph Goebbels and Ernst Roehm; a German translation of Henry Ford's My Life and Work, inscribed by piano-thumping Ernst ("Putzi") Hanf-staengl, "Mit alien besten Wunschen fur 1924." Price...