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Guderian agrees that Hitler alone ran the war; Himmler, Göring and Goebbels feared him as much as did the generals. After the assassination attempt in 1944 (which Guderian still deplores as unsoldierly and un-Christian), only complete sycophants could hold their jobs. But there was one exception: Guderian...
Outside Germany, perhaps the largest group of Germans in Europe today lives in Spain. Aircraft Designers Willy Messerschmitt and Claude Dornier are consultants for Spanish aircraft plants. German engineers hold key jobs in Spanish hydroelectric plants, food-freezing and road-construction companies. Famed Berlin Restaurant Proprietor Otto Horcher, who once...
Knock on the Door. Hitler was well on his way to power when Schumacher arrived in Berlin in 1930 as a newly elected Reichstag Deputy from Württemberg. Almost immediately Schumacher made his mark. "He was most daring, most reckless, most lacking in respect," recalls the man who was...
Much depended on the few hours before the anti-Hitler troops could get to Berlin. Nazi headquarters in Berlin had to be seized, and the Berlin Gauleiter, Propaganda Boss Goebbels, arrested. Orders to do this were given to the commander of the Guards Battalion, Major Remer.
Jawohl. Destiny perched on Remer's shoulders. Instead of arresting Goebbels, he went to see him, unsure what to do. Goebbels persuasively cooed that Hitler was still alive, reached for the phone, handed it to Remer. "Do you recognize my voice?" asked Adolf Hitler. "Jawohl, mein Führer...