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Died. Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, 83, the harsh-handed Wehrmacht general who led the invasion of Norway in April 1940 and the military machine that in the next five years ruthlessly ground 10,000 Norwegians into oblivion; of a heart attack; in Holzminden, West Germany. Even in the heyday of the German blitzkrieg, Von Falkenhorst seemed in a hurry: his troops and planes crushed Norway in just 23 days, and thereafter he used firing squads against civilians and prisoners of war. For these acts he was at first condemned to death by a British military court and later given...
With Manstein's release, only one prominent German general still remains in an Allied jail for war crimes: General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, ex-chief of the Nazi occupation forces in Norway...
...perhaps you will remember the story about General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, onetime commander of all German land, sea and air forces in Norway. Annoyed that his American captors did not recognize him immediately, he exclaimed indignantly: "But your famous TIME magazine had my picture on the cover...
...General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, the former commander of all the German land, sea and air forces in Norway," he an nounced. "Your famous TIME magazine had my picture on the front page, and they described me as the master of land, sea & air." In the course of questioning by General Collins, Falkenhorst later explained that he had received a copy of TIME, containing his picture, from a friend in Sweden. "That is a very excellent magazine," he declared, "and it was a very satisfactory article about me - very satisfactory." Falkenhorst, who said there was never any doubt in his mind...
...Reader Falkenhorst read more carefully in the future. TIME [May 13, 1940] did not call him "master of land, sea & air." TIME said that the campaign he organized and led "was a masterpiece of organization as well as cunning surprise," that he "had proved himself a pitiless war lord." Said the caption under his picture: "He got there first-can he stay there last...