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...their chests, the five military judges walked into the court. Then the four defendants marched in. First among them was a tall old man, with pince-nez and a vinegar-sour face, who bowed stiffly to the presiding judge. He was Lieut. General Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen, 72, military governor of Belgium in World War II, accused together with three other members of his occupation regime of causing the execution of 240 hostages, deporting Belgians for slave labor, deporting Jews to death camps...
General Alexander von Falkenhausen, 64, chief for Belgium, is rated a keen, well-tested strategist. Tall, spare, pince-nezed, Junker Falkenhausen has served around the world, was once a $10,000-a-year military adviser to Chiang Kaishek. He likes to read U.S. and British whodunits, play with his prize dachshunds. In action Allied commanders rate him a keen, dangerous opponent...
...January he resigned and enlisted with the Finns, for two months serving in the infantry and in the airforce, until peace was declared in March. He reached Oslo less than a week before Nickolas von Falkenhausen, Hitler's invading general, and he departed from the German-infested city with a Belgian friend in a vain attempt to join the Norwegian army by traveling through Sweden...
Last week tall, tart Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen, who as Chiang Kai-shek's chief military adviser once taught Chinese troops to goose-step, took over the military Government of the Low Countries for Adolf Hitler. At the same time Berlin let it be known that Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart of Austria and points east, Germany's handy man for disciplining captured countries, would become civil administrator of The Netherlands when the time is ripe...
...young correspondents handed their visiting cards (bearing the Chinese version of their names: Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu) to U.S. missionaries and British diplomats, who received them kindly. They interviewed General von Falkenhausen (Chiang Kai-shek's German adviser at that time), histrionic U.S. Red Writer Agnes Smedley (China Fights Back), who thought they might be fascist plotters because they talked with von Falkenhausen. Madame Chiang Kaishek, with whom the poets took tea, was "for all her artificiality a great heroic figure," but the Generalissimo was "bald" and "mild-looking." We laughed as we pictured Chiang, Madame...