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Died. Colonel General Heinz Guderian, 65, organizer of Hitler's formidable Panzer divisions before World War II and their leader to victory in Poland and France, to defeat within sight of Moscow; of a liver ailment; in Schwangau, West Germany. No avowed Nazi but loyal to Hitler, Heinz Guderian became Wehrmacht chief of staff in 1944, sought in vain to remove Hitler's ban on retreat in the East, was later ousted and, as the war ended, was captured by U.S. forces. Never tried as a war criminal, Old Soldier Guderian pubished his memoirs, Panzer Leader (1952), lived...
...started up the narrow stairs. Above her there was a sudden sound of thudding feet and labored breathing. At the top of the stairs, a man appeared carrying the limp body of an elderly, bald-headed man. Behind him was a man she knew well-43-year-old Heinz Glaeske, an architect who lived with his wife and mother in a third-floor apartment...
...When Heinz Glaeske sought out the NTS, Dr. Trushnovich welcomed his help. Released by the Russians in 1949, Glaeske had founded an organization for former Soviet prisoners who would give NTS valuable information. What Dr. Trushnovich did not know was that Glaeske was a double agent: a member of SED, the East German Communist Party, he had already betrayed three Western agents...
...Frank White, while traveling in Berlin's Red-occupied East sector, where Germans who are caught violating traffic laws have a way of disappearing. For the heavy-traveling Bonn bureau there are three drivers: Wilhelm Hauner, former chauffeur of a Tiger tank in a German Panzer divi sion ; Heinz Koperski, who served in an 88mm. artillery battery; and Bruno Teschke, who serviced Messerschmitts in Czechoslovakia. All have one thing in common: in World War II each was captured by the Russians and held as a prisoner...
Knoke the German airman fought like a true professional. But what of Heinz Knoke, German citizen? In his first chapter, he comments that his old allegiance, the Hitler Youth, "eventually became intolerable because of failure to apply correctly . . . the fundamental principles of National Socialism." He ends his story on something like the same note: "The war is lost ... It is useless for us to trouble ourselves now over such academic questions as responsibility and war guilt...