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...week could be given only by those who knew what was in the mind of Adolf Hitler. Among the few Nazi higher-ups who should have known the Führer's mind (who as usual kept all he knew discreetly to himself) was a man named Heinrich Himmler. Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, State Councillor of Prussia, deputy of the Reichstag, Herr Himmler is better known for two other far more important titles: Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (the famed, black-uniformed 55 Guards), and Inspector of the dread, notorious Gestapo (State Secret Police). From the founder...
...Schuschnigg was secretly dispatched by prominent Austrians to confer at Munich with Hitler's Nazi henchmen, Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess. He went back to Vienna convinced that the Nazis would never offer Austria honorable terms of voluntary association with Germany...
...thousand German troops piled out of a fleet of bombers which had just roared into Vienna's Aspern airport, the vanguard of motorized forces which did not arrive until later that morning. These troops were the escort of Nazi Police Chief Heinrich Himmler, who had arrived to take charge of the capital's constabulary. Herr Himmler found the regular Viennese police, already wearing swastika brassards, augmented by roving bands of Hitler Youth and Storm Troops. A great roundup and lockup of Socialists, Communists, labor unionists and Fatherland Fronters. the only legal party under Chancellor Schuschnigg, was instantly begun...
...history would have been altered. Herr Hitler, with his mystique momentarily shattered, decided in the greatest excitement not to call a session of the Reichstag which he was to have addressed. He might next have sent for General von Fritsch and capitulated, but instead he sent for Nazi Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Secret Political Police, and General von Fritsch, the Army commander-in-chief, was soon reported placed under arrest. Whether it was ordinary arrest, or house arrest or arrest in the bosom of an officers' corps selected by Fritsch was not fully established last week...
...imports increased 16%, all of which has to be paid for out of Reichsbanker Schacht's laboriously collected foreign exchange reserves. Aim of the grain requisition is to save for food two million tons of rye and a half-million tons of wheat previously fed to livestock. With Himmler's strong-arm squads on duty to watch for slackers, the farmers shrugged their shoulders, took humorous consolation in the Government's promise to sell them cheap animal fodder at $8 a ton below the market price for rye. and in Völkischer Beobachter's assurance...