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...years Switchman Fritz Walther had handled Berlin's eastbound trains. Ebert's presidential train, Hindenburg's three-car special, Hitler's headquarters coach has passed his post. A loyal Nazi, Walther was twice decorated by the Third Reich for devotion to duty...
...Table. Jackson's assistants took over, had bales of documents carted into court. Most of them merely documented well-known history, but there were some interesting fillips: a Japanese plot to assassinate Stalin; the first admission that Hindenburg's will approving Hitler's move toward sole power in Germany was actually forged; an April 1941 agreement with Japan to attack the U.S. There were also endless transcripts of bloodcurdling dialogue between Hitler and the defendants. Sample: Hitler (to Göring)-"[We must] kill without pity or mercy all men, women and children of the Polish race...
...World War I the 32nd Infantry Division was the first to pierce the Hindenburg Line. Last week, in mopping-up operations in northern Luzon, the Michigan-Wisconsin National Guard outfit passed its 600th day in battle in this war, claimed another record: "the highest total combat time amassed by any American Army division in any war." Mindful that among combat outfits an argument in superlatives is easy to start, the 32nd waited to hear its claim disputed...
...Spirit & the Flute. In Potsdam's rococo rooms the great Emperor Frederick had played his flute (not badly); in its disciplined gardens he had schemed to confuse and divide his enemies. Since then, Potsdam had symbolized much that was Germany. When old Paul von Hindenburg stood in Potsdam's Garrison Church on March 21, 1933, and handed his country over to the Nazis, he bade them rule in the spirit of Potsdam. Now the Garrison Church was ein Trümmerhaufen - a rubble heap...
...January 1933, senescent President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor. ¶ In June 1934, Hitler carried through the Blood Purge and became absolute Führer of the Nazi Party. In August Hitler became absolute head of the German state...