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...Stockholm now began to report that Germans might revolt. The Russian radio broadcast easy lessons in disarming police patrols. Said Moscow: "A hefty stick will get you a revolver; to get a rifle and a few grenades with the help of a pistol is no work of art." Himmler announced appointment of a new police chief for Berlin...
...raid was made on Weimar that day. According to neutrals, the Luftwaffe did the job, destroyed some 7,500 inmates. But few doubted that 58-year-old Thälmann, who polled five million votes for President in 1932 and has spent eleven years in concentration camps, was dead. Himmler's purge of every name-right, left and center-which might conceivably rally anti-Nazi Germans was not yet done...
...have had about 20 divisions available last week in the West Wall and its approaches, perhaps ten more that can get back from the Low Countries. Perhaps six or eight more succeeded in retiring from southern France to the Belfort Gap; and perhaps ten divisions were available from Himmler's reserve army...
...week Guderian had to draft a field marshal from the east, where he had stopped the Russians before Warsaw, to try to stem the Allied tides in the west. The new oberbefehlshaber was stocky, monocled, 53-year-old Walter von Model (rhymes with yodel), popular in Germany, a Hitler-Himmler favorite as well. Model threw his energies into putting up a stiff delaying action on the Moselle River, to gain time. General Patton's Third Army crossed the Moselle last week but suffered heavy losses doing it, cleared a long section of the Maginot forts, found many...
...rudiments of guerrilla warfare: handling rifles, planting mines, hurling grenades, taking cover. The German press coined a new slogan: "We will fight before the Rhine, on the Rhine and, if we must, behind the Rhine." German businessmen, visiting Switzerland, said revolt at home was out of the question: Himmler had too firm a grip. Hitler could still command a substantial majority in a free election because the Germans saw no alternative. Home-front morale was higher than the Wehrmacht's. Only frightful chaos and Bolshevism could result if the Allies insisted on fighting the war to its bitter...