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Adolf Hitler declared war against Russia for two reasons. One was strategic (see p. 22), the other domestic. As the new campaign began Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler submitted a report on Communist espionage and sabotage, designed to convince Germans and the world that Germany's internal troubles were inspired by Moscow. Truth was that, although Moscow doubtless did stir up some unrest, Germany was rumbling with spontaneous discontent. From one of TIME'S correspondents, until recently in Germany, came these facts...
...Ministry and spokesman for the Government at the Propaganda Ministry's press conferences, disappeared about three weeks ago. The day after the Hess flight police rounded up 20 truckloads of men in north Berlin. Many of them were in Storm Trooper uniforms and were being kicked by the Gestapo as they got on the truck...
...merely lock the stable door too late. Though the big horse was gone, several ponies still fed in the U.S. stall. Dividends and patent royalties due Germans have been piling up in the U.S., providing dollars that could easily be used to finance the Gestapo in this Hemisphere as well as at home. Some of the newly frozen neutrals, notably Switzerland, have been financial servants of the Axis. The President's order locked these ponies in for good...
Sfirete detectives, French Legion members (veterans of both World Wars) and Vichy police have comprised an informal French Gestapo to spy and inform upon anti-Vichy tendencies. Vichy's drive to put Jewish businesses under non-Jewish supervisors continued, with more than 265 enterprises added to the list, including a Normandy textile mill and dyeing plant owned by French-Jewish Novelist Andre Maurois...
Oslo's two biggest buildings, the Oddfellow Building* and the Corn Monopoly Building, last week were getting new tenants, busy German bureaucrats and the men of the Gestapo. On hand for the move was ferret-faced Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler himself, on a flying inspection trip from Germany. Thus, after a year, ended an ignoble experiment-the fumble-footed attempt of Major Vidkun Quisling to govern the country he betrayed...