Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hathaway's soloists were a mixed bag. Tenor James Olesen executed his brief role passionately and with excellent German enunciation. Sharon King as Marcellene was controlled on pitch but was easily overpowered by any of the other soloists. Freshman phenomenon David Ripley acquitted the part of Don Fernando valiantly but seemed to be worrying too much about getting all the notes to do anything with them. Gregory Sandow as Rocco was well, embarrassing. Sandow is one of those rare examples of a ham with stage fright. His singing is at once precious and stiff. His main problem is that...
...might well be excused for skepticism. Yet this book, written by two reputable French journalists after 21 years of assiduous research, claims that all of those revelations were indeed made-and disregarded. The man who ferreted out that information and relayed it to the Allies was a studious, skeletal German refugee-journalist-publisher named Rudolf Roessler, code-named "Lucy," who according to the authors was the most influential-and ignored-spy of World...
Fraternity Hatred. Roessler, a rightist-imperialist German intellectual who fought in World War I and afterward maintained his dedication to a reasonable Germany, fled to Switzerland in 1934, but not before cementing an anti-Nazi friendship with ten high-ranking comrades in the Wehrmacht. Sharing with them the military fraternity's hatred of Korporal Adolf Hitler, Roessler agreed to serve as an out-of-country transmitter for every bit of intelligence that the ten could sneak out of Germany in the event of war. At the same time, he promised his friends that he would not disclose their identities...
...that allowed Soviet Marshals Zhukov, Rokossovski and Eremenko to draw the Wehrmacht into the encirclement of Stalingrad and thus turn the tide of the war in the East. Roessler also provided Russian propagandists with information-direct from Hitler's headquarters-that was used over loudspeakers to break the German resistance: "Panzer grenadiers of the 24th, we shall not be south of Voronezh the day after tomorrow as your leaders have assured you. Save your bread, your ammunition and your gasoline. The luckiest will be those who have kept a bullet to blow their brains out." After also relaying information...
...year. Virtually penniless, he died in 1958; his death went unremarked by the Allies he had tried to serve. Yet the facts of his ring's existence and its ways of operating, as reported by Authors Accoce and Quet, are grudgingly accepted as true by Swiss, West German and British intelligence personnel. Even Allen Dulles, who operated for the OSS in Switzerland during the war, acknowledges Roessler as a "fantastic source." He was that and much more-but the code on his motivation has yet to be broken...