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Died. Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, 84, go-between and No. 1 prosecution witness in the conviction of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnapping; of pneumonia; in The Bronx. After the trial, the retired schoolmaster sold his account of his experience for magazine serialization, advertised himself in Variety as "the most enigmatic, colorful, and widely publicized personality in America," planned a countrywide vaudeville tour, got only as far as Plainfield...
Reason for all this was that a U.S. patrol had captured the command post. The invitation to enter was shouted by its commander Lieut. Paul M. Koerner of Pontiac, 111. Der Herr Hauptmann was in a ravine outside, quite dead...
...afternoon, in a village near Cassino, German soldiers walked up to the door of a battalion command post, clicked heels, saluted snappily and called out: "1st der Herr Hauptmann da?" The answer was always the same: "Ja, der Hauptmann ist hier." Each German strode confidently into the building-and out of the war, a prisoner...
...built its foundations? Says "Hauptmann Hermann," once Hugo Junkers' employe and friend, now a refugee who writes under a pseudonym: Junkers and the technical genius of Ernst Heinkel. A year after the Armistice, a small group of aviation enthusiasts was meeting for glider contests in the little mountain village of Gersfeld. The army became interested. In an atmosphere akin to that of an old-fashioned detective story, planes and aircraft factories were secretly built under the eyes of the Inter-Allied Control Commission. Planes were hidden in nearby meadows when inspectors came through the factories. When the Allied Commission...
Neither Wings of Destiny nor The Luftwaffe is detailed enough to give readers a clear notion of how the R.A.F. and the German Air Force will compare in the coming battle for Europe. Hauptmann Hermann's book contains sketches of early Nazi airmen, ancient history on how the first building of the Luftwaffe was accomplished in spite of the Reichstag, the liberals, the socialists, the communists and the League of Nations...