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...steps and attack Russia before his aims in the West had been achieved. Only some weakness-mental, moral, or material-could account for his taking that otherwise unnecessary risk. For what Adolf Hitler did this week, and what he hopes to do in the future, had been told to Hermann Rauschning in 1934 and published...
...Germans to be not much more than a commissary for herself and Austria. The Ukrainians undertook to supply 1,000,000 tons of grain, 46,000 tons of meat, 400,000,000 eggs, many horses, much coal, lard, manganese, fodder, sugar. The German Commander in the East, Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn, settled down to gather in the loot...
Even before Julius Caesar's time, the Germans were pushing against their western boundaries, and although Caesar drove them across the Rhine, the Romans never felt secure against them. The Kaiser must have thought of Germany's first warlord, whom the Romans called Arminius and the Germans Hermann der Cherusker, who in the First Century ambushed three legions of Romans in the Teutoburg Forest and ended Roman efforts to conquer Germany. Later on the Romans built an early Maginot Line, Limes Germanicus, between the Rhine and the Danube. But the Ro mans made the mistake of recruiting Germans...
...only major German activity during the pause was reconnaissance. Day after day a few of the enemy came over, usually at tremendously high altitudes, apparently to observe, to photograph, to chart. What would be done next in Britain, only Hermann Goring and his boys could...
...republic should be established, able, revered Svein Bjornsson, Icelandic envoy to Copenhagen, was named regent. There was no need to create a new diplomatic service: Iceland had already planted a set of stalwart Vikings in world capitals after the Nazis captured Denmark last year. As for protocol, Premier Hermann Jonasson had always got along with a staff of a secretary and a doorkeeper, and still could...