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...panic of fear and repression that followed the attempted assassination, Adolf Hitler turned, as though by blind instinct, to his old party comrades, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, men as tightly and irrevocably bound to the Nazi system as himself. But to the Army they were no symbols of confidence. And so as a new Chief of the Army General Staff, the Führer chose a different sort of man. He was neither an all-out Nazi nor an old-line Prussian officer, but an adroit military technician, with links to both camps. He was Colonel General Heinz Guderian...
...General Fritz Fromm, whose job as head of the Home Army was taken over by Himmler, had been shot...
...Heinrich Himmler was now the Reich's "Iron Boss." He could appoint, promote, execute any officer in any civil or military job on the say-so of nothing higher than his own conscience...
...Himmler's strong-arm squads were arresting civilians as well as army officers. Among civilians jailed, perhaps shot: former Nazi Minister for Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, former Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath...
...Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler's Schwarze Korps exhorted able-bodied German boys, who usually go to the front at 18, to marry first and beget children. Reason: "Even if the present war is lost, tomorrow's war can be won by the children of today's soldiers...