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...reaction to finding Herr Hitler on the cover of your outstanding magazine was similar to that pronounced feeling of distaste experienced once last summer when I stooped to admire a clump of lovely wild flowers-and gazed at the coiled mass of a rattler...
Freed at last by the British, who put her in concentration camp last year, saucy, blonde, 23-year-old Friedelind Wagner, granddaughter of Herr Hitler's favorite composer, reached Argentina to take a job as artistic director of the Buenos Aires opera house. Said she of Hitler: "I am his enemy to the death...
When World War II began, management of the German coal industry was given to big, blond, blue-eyed Paul Walter, onetime lieutenant of Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley. With the title of the Reich's Coal Kommissar, Herr Walter descended on the producers and retailers, organized them into State-operated syndicates, controlled coal from the mine to the consumer. It was not a successful arrangement. Producers resented State intrusion, labor kicked, consumers got more red tape than coal. Last winter while Berliners were shivering in their apartments, coal was sprinkled on the streets of other cities to prevent...
...Herr Walter's failure gave the private producers heart. Through their No. 1 friend at court, Goring Aide Dr. Helmuth Christian Wohlthat, they convinced the marshal that private industry, if given a free hand, could do the job. Last week Herr Goring gave them their chance, announced the resignation of Kommissar Walter. To replace the State syndicates, the producers formed the Reich Coal Association, modeled it along cartel lines, chose as its head Paul Pleiger, a businessman who is also general manager of the Hermann Goring Works. His first move was to create "coal shock reserves" strategically scattered throughout...
Coal is the biggest but not the first victory for the capitalists in Nazi Germany. For years broad-faced, quiet Herr Wohlthat has doggedly fought a rearguard action against the Party radicals. Born in Wismar (where his father ran a hat shop), Wohlthat got some of his education in the U. S. (New York University and Columbia) and his first real business experience in the Pennsylvania oil fields. In 1930 he married a Philadelphia schoolteacher who happened to be a poor relation of Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...