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...Young. Last week, soon after Britain's famed civilian Home Guard had "stood down," Heinrich Himmler spoke of new forces arising in the Reich. The best-publicized of these is the Volkssturm or Home Army. Promulgated in Hitler's name, the Volkssturm decree summoned all "able-bodied" males between 16 and 60 except those in the Todt (construction) organization, or in police and security units. Himmler's aim was for three million Volkssturm soldiers; perhaps one million have already been mobilized...
...September Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and an armed escort drove to Berchtesgaden to visit Hitler...
...next day did O'Reilly, onetime elevator operator from Brooklyn, learn what a fat cat he had caught. His prisoner was Major General Anton Dunckern. Slick-haired, cruel-faced, arrogant, Prisoner Dunckern was a model for Hollywood's version of a Gestapo bully-and he was Heinrich Himmler's SS commander in Lorraine and the Saar...
...bomb plot. He had been partially paralyzed by an apoplectic stroke. He had undergone a throat operation. He was under the care of four doctors, including a brain specialist. On his physician's advice, he had retired to Berchtesgaden. He had been deposed by Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler. He was simply keeping out of sight so as not to associate himself in the minds of Germans with the days of defeat. He was dead...
...written by Hitler: "Requirements of total war have caused me to postpone celebrations. . . . Work at my headquarters does not permit me to leave it, not even for a few days. ... I consider my task today to consist not ... in delivering speeches. . . ." But Hitler's proclamation was read by Himmler...