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Furthermore, to aristocratic Italians, and thus to the "King's party," the alliance with Germany is plainly abhorrent. They dislike the fact that the German Gestapo operates in Italy. They long for the days when Italy followed Britain's lead in international affairs. They are but little impressed by II Duce's imperial ambitions. In a war they would try to keep Italy from becoming the ally of Germany...
...named Heinrich Himmler. Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, State Councillor of Prussia, deputy of the Reichstag, Herr Himmler is better known for two other far more important titles: Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (the famed, black-uniformed 55 Guards), and Inspector of the dread, notorious Gestapo (State Secret Police). From the founder and ruler of the Third Reich's State Secret Police there can be few State secrets...
Herr Heinrich Jurges, who claims once to have been Dr. Joseph Goebbels' secretary, exposed the scheme "to avenge the death of his wife and her mother at the hands of the Gestapo." He produced a letter addressed to the Reich's Colonial Organization which declared that Patagonia is "nobody's land and we can annex it," and which told exactly how it could done. The signatures on the letter were identified as those of a German Embassy secretary and Nazi Leader Alfred Müller. Result: police arrested Leader Müller, raided Nazi Party offices...
...weeks private correspondents from Czecho-Slovakia had spoken of the intense activity in Prague of German Gestapo agents. For a year young men like those who had circulated around Vienna in 1937-38, dropping a word here and a word there for Naziism, had been active in Prague. The swift, smooth pace of the occupation (see p. 17) showed that the Germans had made organized preparations for it well in advance...
Meanwhile, Dr. Schuschnigg remained locked up in an attic room under the eaves of Vienna's Hotel Metropole, headquarters of the Gestapo in Vienna. The correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post last fortnight reported it was practically certain that Dr. Schuschnigg would not be tried, more likely that he would soon be released to live, under strict guard, in a Vienna villa where he could be joined by his wife, whom he married by proxy while imprisoned...