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...CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION-Hermann Rauschnmg-Putnam...
...farmer was Hermann Rauschning (The Revolution of Nihilism}. Not a Junker, but "a distant connection of most of the Junker families of East Prussia," Rauschning ran "a medium-sized farm of not quite 250 acres" near Danzig, stepped up its sugar-beet and flax yield by intensive cultivation. Believing that "the breeder is a co-creator and an ennobler of nature," he raised purebred horses and heifers. Believing in "the full quiver," he sired eight children, lost three...
...When a deputation of Czech professors and students asked in 1939 if their universities might be reopened, Nazi State secretary Karl Hermann Frank replied: "If we lose the war you will open them yourselves; if we win the war the elementary schools will be enough...
...Messerschmitt 109. The new job, Me 109F, called "Meph" by the British, had been sighted several times, flying on ultra-high reconnaissance. But not until last fortnight, when one pancaked in Kent nearly undamaged, had the British a chance to examine a "Meph" carefully. It had the markings of Hermann Goring's Yellow Nose Squadron, and 22 red stripes on its yellow rudder, denoting victories. But what got the British wind up was its engine: a 3,000-h.p. monster capable of lifting the fighter nearly to 40,000 feet. Since in air battle the plane on top always...
...Swiss francs, and the Farben's interest in I. G. Chemie seemed almost to vanish. But General Aniline's outward characteristics remained not Swiss but German. Its president, Dietrich A. Schmitz, is a brother of the chairman of the board of I. G. Farben, Hermann Schmitz. Walter H. vom Rath, Aniline's secretary, is the son of a Schmitz predecessor as chairman of the Farben. General Aniline had some distinguished American directors when the Germans set it up in '27. But Walter Clark Teagle, chairman of Standard Oil of N.J. (with which the Farben used...