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...many ways the most revealing book written by or about a German general since World War II. Like a lot of his colleagues, Guderian finds the ivory tower of professional soldiering a convenient retreat from the grimmer facts of Nazi life. Concentration camps, persecutions and the like were Himmler's business, a "secret" that was kept in a "masterly" way. Guderian's business was war, and he writes about the military side of war with a fullness and clarity that military historians will be grateful...
Guderian agrees that Hitler alone ran the war; Himmler, Göring and Goebbels feared him as much as did the generals. After the assassination attempt in 1944 (which Guderian still deplores as unsoldierly and un-Christian), only complete sycophants could hold their jobs. But there was one exception: Guderian. He was called back twice, once to rebuild the Panzer armies and set up the Eastern defenses, again to hold the biggest job of all: chief of the general staff...
...plants. German engineers hold key jobs in Spanish hydroelectric plants, food-freezing and road-construction companies. Famed Berlin Restaurant Proprietor Otto Horcher, who once served Göring and Goebbels, now has his own restaurant in Madrid; his food ranks with the best in Europe. SS Colonel Eugen Dollmann, Himmler's onetime personal representative, is opening an import-export business in San Sebastian. Former Gestapo Officer Ernst Hammes has a de luxe gift shop in Madrid's fashionable Serrano district. Scarfaced SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny, daredevil paratrooper who snatched Mussolini from his mountain prison in 1943, and dressed...
Terence Rattigan has come out of the drawing room and into the boarding school for this story of an unloved, unloving teacher, known variously to his students as "the Crock" and "the Himmler of the lower fifth." It is not easy to see how Mr. Rattigan draws his screenplay, derived from a play of his which appeared a couple of years ago, along the narrow, twisting path between the abysses of melodrama and stagnation. But draw it he does, and the resulting picture is a most gratifying and beautifully executed study of character...
...body was carried back to Masaryk's apartment, with Dr. Teply following. As he passed into the building, a black automobile drew up; out stepped Vaclav Nosek, Himmler of the Red Czech regime, and Dr. Vladimir Clementis, Deputy Foreign Minister (later arrested as a Western agent). They hurried into an elevator and got to Masaryk's apartment before Teply...