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When Chancellor Heinrich Bruening first used these almost dictatorial powers, Soldier-Diplomat von Papen "looked on fascinated." The former bombster dreamed of becoming chancellor and restoring the Junkers to power...
Another Niemöller has arisen in Germany-this time a Roman Catholic, Count Clemens August von Galen, Bishop of Minister in Westphalia. In August he denounced Naziism three times from his pulpit so vigorously that according to news which percolated to the U.S. last week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler has urged Hitler to have him shot. To date he las not been touched, for his influence on the workers of Westphalia is so great, and the news of his resistance has grapevined so rapidly throughout the Reich, that the Mazis fear there would be a major work stoppage...
...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...
Chief Terrorist was beak-nosed General Heinrich von Stulpnagel, German commander of Occupied France, ably and professionally supported by veteran French and Nazi police. Early-bird Parisians were puzzled by public notices announcing tem porary closing of the quartier's important subway stations. The entire Xle Arron dissement was surrounded by German troops. They began arresting people whole sale. The victims were supposed to be Jews, but this was not the Jewish district of Paris. In a house-to-house, room-by-room roundup, soldiers seized every "Jew" aged 17 to 50, bundled 6,000 off to nearby concentration...
...shoot himself than go home, things must be pretty bad at home. Last week two Germans killed themselves because they had to go back to Germany. Few days before he was to sail for Lisbon on the U.S.S. West Point (formerly the America) with 500 expelled Nazis and Italians, Heinrich Kurt W. Nostiz, an administrative clerk, walked into a room on the third floor of the German Embassy in Washington, said goodby, shot himself. The Embassy gave out that he had died of heat prostration, later admitted a suicide, tried to pass it off in the Hess vein...