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Adolf Hitler was the subject of some nasty gossip last week. Burbled the wife of Nazi Secretary of State Otto Meissner (now awaiting trial at Dachau): the Fuhrer had a son, Helmuth, by Frau Goebbels, and "I am the only survivor who knows it." It all began, she confided to newshawks, in the summer of 1934. "At that time Frau Goebbels was on bad terms with her husband.. . . Hitler visited her so regularly in her apartment that their relations were obvious. . . . They seemed lost in each other's company, especially when love songs were played. Later, their relations...
...oppose schemes of conquest. Fraulein Gruhn was just what Goring needed. Goring was most helpful to Bridegroom Blomberg, even induced Hitler to come to the wedding. But as soon as the couple had left on their honeymoon, Goring took Frau von Blom-berg's police file to the Fuhrer. Hitler promptly flew into one of his tantrums and sacked Blomberg...
Rudolf Hess crouched in the darkened auditorium, impassively listening to the Wagnerian crash of the talkie's sound track. Suddenly he half rose: before him on the screen was Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, in the center of the triumphant 1934 Nazi Party Congress. Next to him, Adolf Hitler capered with...
...Evening Standard, beating the circulation drum, had a bright idea: a prize of one pound sterling for each answer printed and a grand prize of five pounds for the best answer to "What to do with Hitler?" Some 9,000 tried their hand. On the subject of the Fuhrer, British reserve had been bombed almost out of existence. Some suggestions...
What to do? One obvious move was to sack a general (see Battle of France). There was even a rumor that Hitler himself might assume command in the west, a move not calculated to reassure German soldiers lucky enough to have survived the Fuhrer's earlier experiments with the intuitive method of military command...