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Cooperation with the Allies recently saved thousands of Partisans in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. Tipped off that patriots had sneaked into the city to prepare an attack, the Gestapo ordered a 14-hour, house-to-house search. Soldiers had orders to guard the streets, shoot pedestrians. Tito broadcast an urgent appeal to Allied headquarters in Italy. In immediate reply, Allied bombers flew over Zagreb. The Germans had to sound an alarm. In the confusion, most of the Partisans escaped...
Hitler's residence (but not the Reich Chancellery on the Wilhelmstrasse), Goebbels' home lie in ruins. Göring's offices in Prussia House were being repaired when another bomber abruptly finished them off. Other write-offs: the Foreign Office, Treasury Office, Gestapo Headquarters, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's official residence, Home Office, Army Records Office, Ministry of Armaments & Munitions, Ministry of Education. Severely damaged factories read like a Berlin industrial directory: Siemens, A.E.G., Dornier, Rheinmetall-Borsig, Alkett Motor, B.M.W., Schering...
...bolster the authority of pro-Axis Premier Ion Antonescu, fresh batches of Gestapo agents arrived in Bucharest. Temporarily as in neighboring Bulgaria (TiME, Jan. 10), the Nazi hold might be strong enough to prevent outright defection. But neither the Nazis nor the orders of the quisling Premier could halt Rumania's rising panic...
...Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler and Chief Storm Trooper Wilhelm Schepmann, who ordered their men to attend church services on Christmas...
...were given the mittens be cause the curious pattern was a map. The food at the shrine was for Bastineau. The cure's cryptic sermons kept the villagers informed of anti-Nazi activities. De Vaudois tied Fenton's arms with a rope, began to lead her to Gestapo headquarters. Suddenly a "wondrous and loud and wild" whoopee sounded above their heads. "Eas ily, gracefully as a jumper on skis, Bastineau came down the chimney's broad, wooden shaft, his arms spread like a diver's, his eyes and teeth pure white and savage in his face...