Word: heinrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Gamble. As the year drew to a close, the Germans found their border invaded and themselves in a position where they, in turn, preferred a great gamble to a continued, steady, losing retreat. Adolf Hitler had withdrawn into the shadows and Heinrich Himmler was Germany's Man of 1944. Himmler had held the people and the Army in line while he squeezed them for the last ounces of German strength. Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, the cold, wily Junker who mounted the December counteroffensive, was the Man of the Hour...
...Young. Last week, soon after Britain's famed civilian Home Guard had "stood down," Heinrich Himmler spoke of new forces arising in the Reich. The best-publicized of these is the Volkssturm or Home Army. Promulgated in Hitler's name, the Volkssturm decree summoned all "able-bodied" males between 16 and 60 except those in the Todt (construction) organization, or in police and security units. Himmler's aim was for three million Volkssturm soldiers; perhaps one million have already been mobilized...
...September Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and an armed escort drove to Berchtesgaden to visit Hitler...
...Heinrich Himmler was in town, and the weaseling Skancke, anxious to preserve an appearance of harmony, quietly shelved the letter. The bishops waited several weeks for an answer. Then three of them paid Skancke a call, armed with a document that forthrightly proclaimed, "The Church can never remain silent where God's word is ignored. . . ." Skancke replied that "thoughtless action now may result in serious consequences for the Church." Promptly the bishops wrote a pastoral letter to be read before every congregation in Norway. "When the government tolerates violence and injustice and brings pressure to bear on the souls...
...until next day did O'Reilly, onetime elevator operator from Brooklyn, learn what a fat cat he had caught. His prisoner was Major General Anton Dunckern. Slick-haired, cruel-faced, arrogant, Prisoner Dunckern was a model for Hollywood's version of a Gestapo bully-and he was Heinrich Himmler's SS commander in Lorraine and the Saar...