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Official: "But, Herr Hess, do you know how many planes we had during the Battle of Britain...
Munich's Gauleiter, Herr Giesler, put his spies to work and arrested three "ringleaders," Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst. They were described as typische Einzelganger (typical individual cranks), tried before a Nazi People's Court, found guilty of spreading defeatism and "encouraging sabotage in our armaments by means of leaflets...
There was resentment at having been treated "like children" when Herr Goebbels announced that the North African campaign had never been considered decisive anyway. The dullest man in the street knew that Goebbels had tricked them; every German feared now that the next Allied move would be against the Continent. German newscasts noted the massing of Allied troops in North Africa...
...errors which brought last week's "suspension" of relations between the Russians and the Poles. The Poles had capped their old enmity toward Russia by supporting the Nazi propaganda story that 10,000 missing Polish officers had been found in mass graves in the forest of Katyn. Herr Goebbels said the Russians slaughtered them. Long distrust of Russia had conditioned the Poles to believe the German account. Without notifying either Britain or Russia, they fed the flames of anti-Soviet suspicion by demanding an International Red Cross investigation. The Red Cross (in Geneva) refused; the chastened Poles hastily announced...
Russian newspapers last week reported the capture of a German Ph.D. who had become an infantry man. He and his men had taken over a Russian village, where they seized cattle and grain, hanged six old men & women who were unfit for German work camps. Said the Herr Doktor to a Russian questioner: "We have no heroes. The German Army is an army of businessmen. We are simply thorough and conscientious employes of a great enterprise called The Eastern Campaign...