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Such Nazi bigwigs as Goring, Goebbels, Himmler, Ribbentrop, Rommel and Rundstedt carrying the burden of war and defeat, also resented the Führer's withdrawal. They stamped down sparks of unrest. Old rumors cropped up about violent disagreement within the ruling clique, and experienced correspondents thought that now the rumors were probably true. But Naziwise Swedes saw no chance of such disagreement leading to breakdown until "the invasion is consolidated and Allied advance guards are well on the way to Germany's frontiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Eve of Decision I | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...Hitler at the present time is surrounded for the greater part by members of the Wehrmacht. He lives among these men on the Obersalzberg at Berchtesgaden. He seldom sees Goring, Goebbels and Himmler. In Hitler's house nowadays certain subjects are taboo; for instance, that of total war and its victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eve of Decision II | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Even more accurate, in an easier role, is Victor Varconi. He thickened his eye brows, blended the mannerisms of a body guard and a devoted wife, became a dead ringer for Rudolf Hess. Luis Van Rooten's Heinrich Himmler is verisimilitudinous enough to make flesh crawl. Even when resemblances are not quite accurate, casting and the general performance are psychologically effective. Goring's jocund tigerishness is embodied by a bulky Hungarian named Alexander Pope. Martin Kosleck does not look much like Joseph Goebbels but manages to capture Goebbels' sidelong glide, his peculiar blend of cynicism and venom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, May 8, 1944 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Pierre Laval sensed that brutal, stocky Joseph Darnand was seeking notoriety and power, thought he could use such a man. Laval sent Darnand to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, who received him magnificently. Since then, Darnand has nurtured his shock troopers, recently showed off their skill in thuggery to a group of Nazi experts visiting Vichy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Bully | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...residence (but not the Reich Chancellery on the Wilhelmstrasse), Goebbels' home lie in ruins. Göring's offices in Prussia House were being repaired when another bomber abruptly finished them off. Other write-offs: the Foreign Office, Treasury Office, Gestapo Headquarters, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's official residence, Home Office, Army Records Office, Ministry of Armaments & Munitions, Ministry of Education. Severely damaged factories read like a Berlin industrial directory: Siemens, A.E.G., Dornier, Rheinmetall-Borsig, Alkett Motor, B.M.W., Schering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: Not Dead Yet | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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