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...Heinrich Himmler's lieutenants were cracking down on all Germans of mixed ancestry, no matter how great their skills. At an aircraft factory outside Leipzig was a ground mechanic, half Jewish, whose father had been killed by the Nazis, and whose mother had died of shock. Now he knew he faced a concentration camp. When he was ordered to taxi a new Junkers 188 twin-engined reconnaissance bomber down the factory field, he saw his chance and took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: This Freedom | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Around Gumbinnen, the first sizable town on the rail line to Königsberg, Chern-yakhovsky ran into progressively stronger defenses-trenches, minefields, barbed wire. Every settlement was a fortress, every house and hillock a gun position. Heinrich Himmler's Home Army units were easily killed or captured, but the Wehrmacht traded punch for punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY (East): Punch for Punch | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...Frankfurt radio announced last week that the first units of the Volksgrenadiere-Heinrich Himmler's Home

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WAR: Last Chance before Winter | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

This was the same sort of wastage that the German Army suffered during the early days of the battle of Normandy. The Wehrmacht was now being reinforced by the old, the young, the deaf, the wounded (only partially recuperated). Heinrich Himmler was organizing his home guards to back up the line. He also visited the front, ordered troops to dig new positions, to remain in them until killed or ordered to retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY (West): Time for Pessimism? | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...London, after eleven months of solemn deliberation, the United Nations War Crimes Commission announced a list of 350 Nazis who had committed crimes abroad. Unlisted were Hitler, Himmler, Göring and Goebbels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Criminals | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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