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Next morning, with Germany seething with rumors of unrest, there was still bigger news. All German home affairs were placed under Gestapo rule as Heinrich Himmler, dread head of the Nazi secret service, was named Minister of the Interior and "Chief of the Reich Administration...
...Berlin dispatch announced the German Government in &#quot;permanent session&#quot; at Adolf Hitler's field headquarters. Present: Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, Ribbentrop, Munitions Minister Speer, Chief of Staff Keitel, Grand Admiral Doenitz, Air Marshal Milch, Generals Zeitzler and Jodl of the General Staff. (Notable absentee: General Walther von Brauchitsch, former CINC of the Wehrmacht, who disappeared from the Russian front last January. Might he become Germany's Badoglio...
Stockholm also reported that in bomb-shambled Hamburg demonstrators demanded an immediate end to the war and an active struggle against Hitler. Many local Gauleiter had fled; those who remained were unable to cope with the situation. Late in the week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler arrived to supervise restoration of order in the least Nazi of German cities...
Since Messrs. Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels et al. are still at large, the United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes as yet has had little to do except receive complaints. But already it has a long list of accused. By the end of 1942 the delegates of nine German-occupied countries, where an estimated 3,400,000 people had been executed or had died in Nazi concentration camps, had proposed over 10,000 German names for punishment...
Connie Burwell (who studied at the University of Heidelberg after she finished at Sweet Briar) was inside Germany all during the feverish war preparations of 1937-1938-saw Hitler, Himmler, Goring, Goebbels many times-made notes of everything she saw and heard, tore them into strips, smuggled them out of. Germany in her shoes under the noses of the Gestapo...