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...anachronism, a noticeable incongruity, in conquered Germany. British guards on a bridge in Bëmervörde, noting and suspecting the perfection of Herr Hitzinger's papers, dumped him in a prison camp. After three days he declared to the camp commandant: "I am Heinrich Himmler...
...Heinrich Himmler's last journey was different. Before, wherever he had travelled, death followed him like a shadow-and the shadow fell on many, at Maidanek. Oswiecim, Buchenwald. "You find people there," he once said of his concentration camps, "with hydrocephalus, cross-eyed and deformed ones . . . a lot of cheap trash . . . the prisoners are made up of slave souls...
...last trip, from Berlin to Flensburg to the north German moors, his shadow caught up with him. Heinrich Himmler, whom his fellow Nazis had ironically nicknamed "gentle Heinrich," had shaved his Hitlerian mustache, replaced his scholarly pince-nez with a black eye patch. He had become Herr Hitzinger. His papers were in perfect order. He loved order...
Last week the church revealed that the man in the disguise was none other than its primate, Bishop Eivind Berggrav. During most of the years when Himmler's quislings congratulated themselves that Bishop Berggrav was safely behind bars, he was actually leading one of occupied Europe's most successful undergrounds...
...Heinrich Himmler, missing, bloody boss of the liquidated Gestapo, was no longer a matter of concern to Winston Churchill, who observed: "I expect he will turn up somewhere in this world or the next, and will be dealt with by appropriate local authorities...