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...steel empire, Friedrich Flick was "the greatest single power behind the Nazi war machine." At Nurnberg last week, haggard, white-haired Friedrich Flick, 64, became the first German businessman convicted by the U.S. war crimes tribunal. For exploiting slave labor, looting industries in occupied countries and collaborating with Himmler's SS, he got seven years...
...Boris Chaliapin came along to contribute their respective talents. Tasker was, and is, liaison man, interpreting his and the editors' ideas to the artists and vice versa. With Baker's third cover (April 24, 1939) a symbolic swastika was inserted in the background of the Heinrich Himmler portrait. From that time on interpretive symbolism has been an increasingly significant part of the cover-to help identify portraits not immediately familiar to everybody, and to highlight the cover subjects' current news value...
...false hopes. Göring, in his Prussian retreat, dressed "now like an oriental Rajah, now in a light-blue uniform with a bejeweled baton of pure gold and ivory, now in white silk, like a Doge of Venice . . . studded with jewels . . . and a swastika of gleaming pearls. . . ." Himmler, deluded to the end, maintained a "school of eager researchers [who] studied . . . Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, the symbolism of the suppression of the harp in Ulster, and the occult significance of Gothic pinnacles and top-hats at Eton." Hitler himself sometimes rose from his "modest supper of vegetable pie and distilled water...
Madrid belonged to Evita last week. Not since the welcome to Hekirich Himmler in 1940 had the Franco regime tuned up a reception as thunderous as the one it handed the dashing blonde wife of Argentina's President Juan Perón. Evita drew even larger crowds than had ever turned out for Dictator Franco himself. "Of course," went the explanation, "she's better looking...
...proud of him," said Heinrich Himmler's granite-hard wife Margarete soon after he killed himself. Last week from Germany came reports that three times she had tried the same trick herself. But Margarete lacked Heinrich's skill. Wanted in Bavaria for trial as a Nazi, she was locked in a lunatic asylum at Bielefeld in the British zone, "a physical and moral wreck...