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Knauth remembers his Berlin correspondent days as one bout after another with the Nazis. He got his best chance to study Hitler's bigwigs closeup at the Berlin Auto Show, when he talked his way into a restricted area, found himself rubbing elbows with Hitler himself, Hess, Goebbels and Göring. Twice he was arrested by the Gestapo-once for photographing a riot, again for being in a café suspected as a gathering place for people who didn't like Nazis...
...Sept. 1, 1939, when Hitler told the Reichstag that Germany was at war, he designated Hermann Göring as his successor in case something should happen to him, and Rudolf Hess as the next leader if something happened to Göring. But Hess dropped first into insanity, then into Scotland, now broods his life away as a British captive. Göring has receded into obscurity, although he is still titular chief of the Luftwaffe. Many Gauleiter who used to hang on Göring's coattails have switched their allegiance to Himmler. The Gestapoman showed...
...Rudolf Hess, hairy; fervent disciple of Adolf Hitler, onetime No. 3 Nazi, who became the United Kingdom's No. 1 prisoner of war when he parachuted into England in 1941, was reported to be in a high state of "nervous and mental" deterioration, cutting up so much it required the strength of 30 guards to subdue...
Bedbugs. In Manhattan, Nature Photographer Lilo Hess leashed five praying mantises with thread and safety pins to the foot of her bed to catch flies and mosquitoes...
...Rudolf Hess, Hitler's beetle-browed onetime private secretary and Nazi No. 3, the United Kingdom's No. 1 war prisoner since his A.W.O.L. flight from Germany in 1941, was reported by London's gossipy Reynolds News as sued for divorce by equally beetle-browed Frau Ilse Hess. Charges: "desertion and insanity...