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...Athene Palace the day Paris fell. She found the hotel swarming with "spies of every Intelligence Service in the world; the diplomats and military attaches of great and little powers; British and French oil men on their way out, and German and Italian oil men on their way in; Gestapo agents and Ovra agents and OGPU agents, or men who were at least said to be agents; amiable Gauleiters and hardheaded economic experts; distinguished Rumanian appeasers and mink-clad German and Austrian beauties who were paid to keep them happy. ... As the drama of bloodless German conquest later on drew...
...Henderson's ability to lick inflation by this piecemeal method has nothing to do with his partial power over prices. For Henderson is also the administrator of civilian supply, with complete power over rationing. Without a Gestapo no price ceiling is effective on scarce materials whose supply is uncontrolled; and when the supply is controlled-i.e., rationed-the price ceiling enforces itself. Thereafter, as both Britain and Canada know, control of inflation is a Treasury matter: more taxes, more savings...
...recalled that the proud Field Marshal's troops, after taking Kiev and Kharkov, had been roughly handled in the Russian counteroffensive. It was also recalled that the aristocratic Field Marshal had long regarded Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler as a crude, lower-middle-class upstart. In Czecho-Slovakia, when the Field Marshal tried to take over a hotel for his staff from Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo Chief, refusing, declared: "Some day I'll settle up with...
...privy information and protection, Hitler was said to be forming a secret service even more mysterious than the most arcane Gestapo circles...
...glory as any Army ever had. But he had often demanded that the fighting be according to his, rather than the Army's strategy. This had led to several open breaks between Adolf Hitler and the Army High Command. Adolf Hitler was protected by the presence of his Gestapo and Elite Guardsmen scattered throughout the Army. But his feud with the Army had become widespread gossip, not only in Germany, but elsewhere...