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...their old campaigns and think up new ones. At one time or another Franz von Papen, Hitler's ambassador to Ankara . . . would rest in the lobby. . . . Suave Dr. Clodius, Hitler's economic wizard, would recover his breath here after endless discussions with General Antonescu. . . . Even Frau Himmler, wife of the Gestapo chief, looking like Elsa Maxwell, came and ate big portions of whipped cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Hotel | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

There was also Frau Edit von Coler. She lived at the Athene Palace, but never gave people more than a glimpse as she whisked across the lobby or drove down the Calea Victoriei in her "long grey Mercedes." Rumor said that she was Himmler's sister and a modern Mata Hari. Says the Countess Waldeck: "Mata Hari and her sisters were dumbbells in an era when bare skin was supposed to make generals lose their heads. . . . [Frau von Coler] was not Hitler's spy, but a Hitler propagandist. . . . And to make friends and influence people," adds the Countess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Hotel | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...recalled that the proud Field Marshal's troops, after taking Kiev and Kharkov, had been roughly handled in the Russian counteroffensive. It was also recalled that the aristocratic Field Marshal had long regarded Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler as a crude, lower-middle-class upstart. In Czecho-Slovakia, when the Field Marshal tried to take over a hotel for his staff from Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo Chief, refusing, declared: "Some day I'll settle up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: CASUALTIES: Apoplexy in Russia | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...opposition pointed out that although Secretary Morrison's actions under 18B were supposedly subject to an advisory committee, he had opposed their advice 90% of the time. Laborite Samuel Sydney Silverman called the absolutism of the Home Secretary's powers equal to that of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Civil Liberties in Pawn | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...Foreign Department of the Gestapo (under Himmler and Himmler's chief killer Reinhard Heydrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Improbabilities | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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