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...bird he was after was not Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann, but one Gottfried Sandstede, who was officially listed as head of the Embassy's press office. Investigator Damonte had good reason to suspect that he was head of Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo in Argentina, that the Ambassador himself took orders from Gottfried Sandstede. His name was on a list of 36 Germans wanted for questioning, but Gottfried Sandstede claimed diplomatic immunity...
...enemies of the New Order they wanted. This was done with a grim parody of legality. The Germans gave the names they wanted to Vichy's Paris Ambassador Fernand de Brinon. He told the office of Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Darlan, which told the Vichy Gestapo, who made the arrests. In so doing they were joined by members of the Nazi Gestapo (the Vichy Gestapo, either by accident or design, has let many prisoners slip through its fingers). The arrests were made in the name of the "International Convention for Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism"-a legal...
Education of a future Nazi big shot begins at age 8, when he enters one of the junior leadership schools called Napoli (National Political Institutes). The boys are supposedly chosen with extreme care; actually they are usually relatives of the Schutzstaffel or Gestapo men who pick candidates. In the Napoli, handsomely equipped boarding schools, boys live like young Etonians, go in for sports, "political instruction," Nazi race theories. Each boy gets his assignment early, thereafter concentrates on special studies for his role as Gauleiter of California, Texas, Argentina or Odessa, as the case...
...Pastor Martin Niemoller has been transferred from the dread Sachsenhausen concentration camp to some place of detention in Bavaria "where he is much better off," according to a message smuggled past the German censor last week. The heroic leader of Lutheran resistance to Hitler has been held by the Gestapo since...
...felt in the presence of "the mystery of the fertility of the arable land," the stirrings of an ancient paganism. An authority on sacred music, he wrote voluminously about it. He also wrote, never published, a monumental history of the end of the Prussian order (since confiscated by the Gestapo), dabbled in local agrarian politics, became president of the Danzig Senate, pondered upon that passage in the writings of the late great Austrian poet, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which describes the growing revolt against Europe's arid intellectualism: "The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than...