Word: himmlers
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Eichmann's imaginative lies and maneuverings paid off in 1938, when Hitler occupied Austria. Eichmann flew to Vienna in the same plane with the top men in the SS, acidulous Heinrich Himmler and blond, willowy Reinhardt ("The Hangman") Heydrich, and was given the task of getting rid of the Austrian Jews but keeping their possessions. In dealing with Jewish leaders, Eichmann delighted in playing the role of unpredictable tyrant. One day, he would be soft-spoken and agreeable, even delaying a transport of Jews so that it would not start on Yom Kippur; the next, he would scream hysterically...
...father, a staunch Catholic, kept a butcher shop in the Schwabing sector of Munich in the years Naziism got started there. More than once, young Franz Josef wrapped cold cuts for a poultry-breeding patron named Heinrich Himmler. Across from the butcher shop at No. 49 Schelling-strasse, Heinrich Hoffman kept a photographic shop where a frequent visitor was a pale, mustached man named Adolf Hitler. One day when Butcher Strauss caught his son-aged five-handing out pamphlets that some brown shirt had given him, he gave the boy a thrashing right there in the Schellingstrasse. "That," says Franz...
...refugees ("Every refugee who comes out is a vote for our society"). When Nikita Khrushchev came to the U.S., Judd was among the minority who protested, and he refused to dine with U.S.-touring Anastas Mikoyan ("For the same reason we would not attend a social function honoring Hitler, Himmler, Nero or Genghis Khan...
Died. Dr. Felix Kersten, 61, Gestapo Boss Heinrich Himmler's personal physician ( "my magic Buddha"), who used his influence over his patient to save 3,000,000 Dutchmen from deportation to Polish Galicia and the Ukraine and 60,000 Jews from death in the gas chamber, moved to Sweden in 1943 and became a Swedish citizen ten years later; of a heart attack; in Hamm, Germany. Kersten was a movingly human figure in the upper echelon of Nazi Germany. Half in despair, half in admiration, Himmler told Italy's Count Ciano: "He is a great nuisance and gives...
...death trains piled up at the Auschwitz sidings and Hoess's gassing and cremation schedules went hours awry, he pleaded with Himmler for more guards and materials. Himmler suggested using more dogs to herd the prisoners, but otherwise told Hoess that he would have to make do with what he had. Somehow, Hoess did-and he is as methodically informative as a suburbanite fighting crab grass as he discusses the relative merits of poison gasses and the superiority of threeretort crematory ovens to four-retort ovens. Hoess remembers with almost nostalgic pride a date of peak efficiency when...