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...Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring had wept bitterly over his jewels and looted paintings, then shot himself...
Street by street, Breslau was falling to Red Army assault teams. After more than a month of siege, the city's factories and vast areas around the central part of the town were tumbled ruins. But stubbornly, house by house, floor by floor, Germany's Lieut. General Hermann Niehoff battled to hold them...
...Sept. 1, 1939, when Hitler told the Reichstag that Germany was at war, he designated Hermann Göring as his successor in case something should happen to him, and Rudolf Hess as the next leader if something happened to Göring. But Hess dropped first into insanity, then into Scotland, now broods his life away as a British captive. Göring has receded into obscurity, although he is still titular chief of the Luftwaffe. Many Gauleiter who used to hang on Göring's coattails have switched their allegiance to Himmler. The Gestapoman showed...
...indeed, a puzzle that the Nazis thought it worth while to attack in this area at this stage of the war. One ingenious explanation, offered by some U.S. Seventh Army officers, was that Nazi General Hermann Balck had hastily committed his best units to action in order to keep the German High Command from taking them away. Balck had two or more Panzer or Panzer grenadier divisions, one of mountain troops from Norway, one of SS infantry, one of paratroops-a parcel of the Wehrmacht's best...
...Wasp and the Fire. Meanwhile, the Germans, kept up their diversionary offensive in Alsace-Lorraine. This show was commanded by a rough-&-tumble general named Hermann Balck, who had distinguished himself in the Nazi retreat up the Rhône valley in France, and who had been built up in German popular esteem as a successor to the late Erwin Rommel. When the U.S. Seventh Army held and shoved back the German bulge south of Bitche, Balck attacked at Rimling, on the west shoulder of the Bitche salient. He also renewed his attacks on the French from the Colmar pocket...