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...Versailles Treaty from building a great Navy, Germany realized that to rise and fight again she must count on an air force for its long-range striking force. The two men most directly concerned with building the Air Force were one all the world has heard of, Hermann Göring, and one very few have heard of, Erhard Milch. Though he has kept closest surveillance over the Air Force, Göring has in recent months taken over many outside duties, and the real propeller of the force is now Erhard Milch, Inspector-General of the Air Force...
...Sept. 1, sold like hot cakes in London last week was therefore not hard to find. He had turned in a world scoop, a still-warm drop of the very blood of history, a terrifying picture of how war is born, some penetrating glimpses of Field Marshal Hermann Goring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and State Secretary Baron Ernst von Weizsdcker, a modest reflection of Sir Nevile's own shrewdness, courage and humor, and above all a never-to-be-forgotten firsthand sketch of Hitler the conqueror, screamer, wizard, fox, weird...
...obviously the Bank of England) revealed to news correspondents, as the results of a two-year search, that all the top men in A. Hitler & Co., with the sole exception of A. Hitler, long ago took care to deposit fortunes and take out big insurance policies outside of Germany. Hermann GÖring, Rudolf Hess, Paul Joseph Goebbels, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Robert Ley, Heinrich Himmler and Julius Streicher were all specifically named.* The total of their holdings was categorically fixed at $34,873,500. Banks of the U. S., South America, Japan, Luxembourg, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Egypt, Estonia, Latvia...
...Simultaneously with this British story, the secret radio of the German Freedom Party broadcast that Big Nazi Julius Streicher, chief Jew-baiter of Hitler & Co., quarreled last week with Hermann GÖring over their respective scales of living, that Streicher had been flung into a concentration camp, saved from execution only by the personal intervention of A. Hitler. When interrogated about the alleged GÖring deposit, Tamotsu Nishida, manager of Sumitomo Bank, Ltd., declared: "Oh, there must be some mistake. We are only a foreign branch for the home office at Osaka. . . . We don't accept deposits...
...Germany, Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch is almost as obscure as he is abroad, and for two reasons: 1) Germans are rationed only one hero and his name is Adolf Hitler; 2) Brauchitsch is the typical German Army officer, self-effacing, obedient and personally dull. Only time he ever got himself talked about was last year, when he divorced his first wife to marry young and pretty Charlotte Schmidt, daughter of a Silesian judge. Nevertheless, he possesses the thoroughness, persistence and greatness in his field that have made the Army the highest expression of German efficiency and perhaps...