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...lost; that the "Bolsheviks" had pierced Brandenburg, Berlin's home province; that the enemy had cut off East Prussia (see below). The lowly Volkssturm was called out to help stem the tide. The westward flood of refugees hampered the movement of army units to the front, forcing Heinrich Himmler to use his SS men as traffic controllers...
...extension of the commission's powers to try Nazis for crimes against their own nationals, e.g., Jews. The answer, which arrived four months later, said: no. Sir Cecil's second letter, written last October, asked for international courts to try arch war criminals like Hitler, Himmler, Mussolini. The answer, which arrived three months later, said: no. A fortnight ago Sir Cecil wrote a third letter: his resignation. This week he was succeeded by Lord Justice Finlay, eminent British jurist...
Another Gamble. As the year drew to a close, the Germans found their border invaded and themselves in a position where they, in turn, preferred a great gamble to a continued, steady, losing retreat. Adolf Hitler had withdrawn into the shadows and Heinrich Himmler was Germany's Man of 1944. Himmler had held the people and the Army in line while he squeezed them for the last ounces of German strength. Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, the cold, wily Junker who mounted the December counteroffensive, was the Man of the Hour...
...whole hour Hitler refused to see his callers. Then he gave in. Rundstedt spoke first, announced that henceforth Hitler's military genius must not interfere with the conduct of the war. Hitler flared up, threatened to have Rundstedt hanged. Then Himmler cut in and said that "with all respect for the Führer." the war came first, and that the SS supported the Wehrmacht's demands...
...Heinrich Himmler was in town, and the weaseling Skancke, anxious to preserve an appearance of harmony, quietly shelved the letter. The bishops waited several weeks for an answer. Then three of them paid Skancke a call, armed with a document that forthrightly proclaimed, "The Church can never remain silent where God's word is ignored. . . ." Skancke replied that "thoughtless action now may result in serious consequences for the Church." Promptly the bishops wrote a pastoral letter to be read before every congregation in Norway. "When the government tolerates violence and injustice and brings pressure to bear on the souls...