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...Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were well known to German Kathe Kollwitz; she had sketched them from life for more than 50 years. When Death finally turned on her in Germany's Harz Mountains last September, she was 78, worn out, and nearly blind. But her prints and drawings still stood as a terrible and pitiful description of human suffering. In the '205 they had seemed, to U.S. eyes, grotesquely exaggerated; the pictures of Belsen now made them seem like plain, eyewitness reporting...
...First Army cut loose with a 25-mile push along the Thuringian corridor, south of the Harz Mountains. Next day the Ninth's 2nd Armored ("Hell on Wheels") Division amazingly spurted 50 miles to the Elbe River. Next day the Third's 6th Armored moved up 46 miles to the vicinity of Jena. Next day the same Army's famed 4th Armored sped 32 miles across the railroads and highway linking Berlin and Munich. Thereafter enemy traffic had to take the roundabout route through Dresden and Prague...
...Gangling, weak-chinned Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") von Hohenzollern. fourth son of the Kaiser, enthusiastic Brownshirt brigadier and Nazi Reichstag deputy, once dubbed "national orator" by Hitler. (His stepmother, Princess Hermine, also passed into U.S. custody at Schloss Rossla in the Harz mountains...
Short, crop-haired, 42-year-old Martin Bormann was a schoolboy bully in Halberstadt near the Harz Mountains. After World War I he studied agriculture in Mecklenburg, where he joined a murderous anti-Republican gang whose pastime was beating workmen as they left their beer halls. This connection led him into the German Workers Party, predecessor of the Nazis...
...Berlin, one clear, cold morning last week, 43 newsmen, including four U. S. correspondents, reported by invitation at the Wilhelmplatz building of the Propaganda Ministry. They bundled into two enormous grey busses, set out on a five-hour trip to Aschersleben, home of Willkie's ancestors, in the Harz mountains 150 miles southwest of Berlin...