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Last week Chief of German Police Heinrich Himmler was proud as a pouter pigeon. Having proved strangely inept as a cop, he redeemed himself as a superb detective-story author. Serially, from day to day, he released his mystery thriller, The Bürgerbräu Plot...
This week Author Himmler indicated that there would be an interesting sequel, The Trial of George Elser. There were heaps of evidence, he further indicated, to prove Elser guilty and disprove the preposterous French assertion that George Elser was yanked out of a concentration camp to take a whopping...
...Party, perhaps the best guarded room frequented by the best guarded man in the world. The veterans packed the balcony; pressed around the one central pillar supporting the entire ceiling; crowded to the very foot of the speaker's white rostrum. The big men-Hitler, Göebbels, Himmler, Frick, Hess, Ley, Rosenberg, Streicher, Brückner-were there on time (only Göring was absent, holding the fort in Berlin); so were the small fry, like Wilhelm Weber, a radio speaker, Leonhard Reindl, an office clerk, and jolly, buxom Maria Henle, the beer hall's cashier...
Police Chief Heinrich Himmler announced a reward of $320,000 for information leading to apprehension of the culprits, and a private citizen added $40,000. All the world's question: who were the plotters...
Until war's end there will probably be only clues to the Bürgerbräu bombing (such as whether Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo is purged). Everyone, especially in Germany, had a guess. Two facts were glaringly clear...