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...Silly Intrigues." As for the phrase "Blas Himmler," said Robles sardonically, "how could it be regarded as injurious to compare anybody with Himmler when Herr Himmler (chief of Hitler's Gestapo) was received with full honors and presented with the highest Spanish decoration during his visit here in 1940?" The sentences handed down by the court were surprisingly light: six months to a year and $125 to $250 fines...
...buried alive. An unquiet grave. Teletypes chatter, switchboards mumble, telephones scream, messengers dart. Behind closed doors the generals wrangle: How much do they dare tell Hitler of how desperate the situation is? The politicians gather nervously for the Führer's birthday party. Goebbels, Göring, Himmler, Bormann, Speer-the likenesses are good enough to inspire shudders. Eva Braun (Lotte Tobisch), in her frumpy frock and country perm, might have stepped right out of the photograph on Hitler's desk...
...public prosecutor at Kiel, charging only that Clauberg had "caused severe bodily harm" to Jewish women at Auschwitz, backed his charge with sworn statements from more than 30 sterilized women who had survived Clauberg's experiments. He also cited a letter in which Clauberg boasted to Gestapo Chief Himmler that "my method of achieving sterilization of the female organs has been developed more or less completely ... it is accomplished by a single injection ... If the examinations which I have been carrying on continue to work out, the moment is not far away when I could probably sterilize several hundred...
...Francisco Conference approached and the war in Europe waned, Truman began to be more concerned with international affairs. The Nazi armies were disintegrating, and Winston Churchill telephoned from Britain to discuss a peace feeler that had reached him from Heinrich Himmler. On his way to San Francisco, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov called at the White House and got an unexpected dressing down from Harry Truman. Russia was not living up to its Yalta agreement on the composition of the Polish government, and Truman had some testy comments to make about the necessity for keeping obligations. " 'I have never...
Died. Václav Nosek, 59, bulb-nosed Himmler of the Czech Communist regime, believed to have been involved in the "defenestration" death of Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk in 1948; after long illness; in Prague. Nosek fled to England when the Nazis seized power, returned as Minister of the Interior in the pre-Communist coalition government, and systematically helped turn his country into a police state...