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Last week the official Berlin radio confirmed the report that Haider had been replaced and identified his successor: non-Junker, 47-year-old General Kurt Zeitzler, long a friend and protege of the Gestapo's Heinrich Himmler, for whom the Army Prussians have no love. Gustav Siegfried Eins, still broadcasting reports which would normally bring quick extermination to any station in Germany, growled that General Haider was "confined" at his home...
Hitler took a liking to black-eyed, paunchy Kurt Zeitzler during the Polish campaign when the Führer reviewed one of Himmler's 55 regiments. Zeitzler quickly rose from colonel to general, served in Poland, the Balkans and the Caucasus as a Panzer staff officer and, despite his Gestapo connections, won the grudging respect of the Wehrmacht's Junkers...
London correspondents concluded that open war was on between Hitler and the Wehrmacht Prussians and that the Gestapo's Himmler was extending his control to the army. An official Berlin announcement seemed to bolster this interpretation: By order of Hitler, Gestapo district Gauleiters in Germany were designated defense commissioners, responsible for military measures within their areas-which may have been only an indication of growing unrest in Germany. London even revived the report, also current in the U.S., that some of the army Prussians were deliberately "isolating" Hitler, against the day when complete disaster in Russia might enable them...
...give powerful assistance in the form of antiaircraft artillery to insure Italian defenses." He did not mention an estimated 250,000 German troops now in Italy to resist invasion-or to shoot Italians who do not fight. The arrival of Reich Marshal Hermann Goring and of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler last week was expected to mean complete German control of military and civilian defenses. Germans realize that successful completion of the Allied invasion of North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants now out of reach of Britain...
...hours after its ultimatum to the Czechs had expired, Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo unbagged a weasel that smelled to heaven. The assassins of Reinhard Heydrich, announced the Gestapo, had been discovered in a Prague church and "shot while resisting arrest." Snorted the BBC: "Embittered and frightened by Czech resistance, Nazi authorities let themselves indulge in vain and useless threats...