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...photogrammetrists compiling charts and several squadrons of flying cameramen (divided into strategic and tactical groups), while a third of the planes on every bombing mission carry cameras. Reconnaissance flyers, a cocky, confident group, like to quote a prewar prediction by German General Werner von Fritsch: "The military organization with the best aerial photo reconnaissance will win the next...
...took command of the First Army District, became a pillar of conservatism in the East Prussian Junker milieu, a loyal follower of archconservative General Werner von Fritsch. General von Brauchitsch did not oppose the Nazis; he snubbed them as upstarts. But to appease the old-line Army caste, Hitler made him Commander in Chief with Cabinet Minister rank...
...When Fritsch was killed in Poland, probably shot in the back by the Gestapo, Brauchitsch made the funeral speech: "The unshakable loyalty with which this best soldier of the German Army served his unbreakable principles of honor, in good and in bad times, make him an example, the only example for every German soldier...
...Chancellor, a suspicious-looking Mrs. Paul Budde was arrested in the Chancellery with a twelve-inch dagger concealed on her person. In 1934 Papen was on Adolf Hitler's purge list, but was saved by German Army guards sent to his home by the late General Werner von Fritsch. By 1935 Papen had proved his usefulness to Adolf Hitler as Minister to Austria, but Austrian Nazis tried several times to obliterate the Minister. In 1937 Papen's murder was ordered by Rudolf Hess and prevented by Papen's own agents...
Hydro (U. S. Department of the Interior) was filmed by a onetime MARCH OF TIME director, Gunther von Fritsch. A slick job of cutting and photography, Hydro gets at the problems back of the New Deal's Columbia River power project in the Northwest: denuded forest slopes, timber markets cut off by the war, abandoned farmlands that thirst for water. A propaganda picture, Hydro shows how Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams will irrigate barren fields, provide power for new defense industries, put jobless men to work. Best shots: the wild, glistening waters of the river undammed, royal Chinook salmon...