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...attack; in Montego Bay, Jamaica. When the Credit Anstalt, the family's Vienna bank and Central Europe's biggest financial house, failed in 1931, Rothschild handed over $10 million of his private fortune to the Austrian government to help cover losses. Held for a year by the Gestapo after Hitler's Anschluss, he was released after payment of a $21 million "ransom...
...dreams of grandeur, and courage to match. He enlisted in the army, got himself assigned to the most hair-raising jobs in warfare-dropping behind enemy lines in The Netherlands for sabotage and espionage, working in enemy territory with resistance groups. He was twice captured by the Gestapo, twice escaped. At war's end he emerged a captain with a Military Cross...
Secret File stars Robert Alda, and its first script had a touchingly old-fashioned air. Alda, dressed in Nazi uniform, crept into wartime Germany to locate the factory where Hitler was manufacturing a bacteria bomb. There were squads of brutal and booted Gestapo, a beautiful barmaid (Was she enemy or friend?), a German professor who recoiled from making weapons for mass destruction. Alda had plenty of opportunity to make a stiff upper lip and to say things like "I'm only doing a job that has to be done...
...Berliners who suffered privation in silence but protested peevishly against such innovations as lipstick and slacks, which they thought "incorrect." Elder son Kurt was dead or a prisoner in Russia; Fritz, the younger boy, was a good-for-nothing young Nazi who had once betrayed his parents to the Gestapo and who soon would betray them again. Author Faviell's favorites were the two Altmann girls, as different as flesh and fire. Ursula, the pretty one, had been raped by a band of Russians, though it probably was not the first time; Lilli, fair and delicate ("probably the only...
...killed four men around him, but left a barely injured Hitler alive to take a terrible revenge. He had thousands of suspects rounded up - field marshals, trade-union leaders, ambassadors, mayors, army officers, politicians. Many were jailed or slain. The eight ringleaders were tortured for days by Gestapo experts. Finally. Hitler said: "It is my wish that they be hanged like cattle." The eight were stripped, and as they shivered in the chilly dawn, their necks were encircled by short, thin string attached to meathooks in the torture chamber in Plötzensee Prison. Each man was then dropped...