Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly or dimly, most Germans realized that Himmler was the new master of the Third Reich. Last October, Himmler himself had told how Germany would" be defended: "Every village, every house, every farm, every ditch, every forest and every bush." As Adolf Hitler's longtime chief butcher, torturer, spy and slavemaster, Heinrich Himmler is the archetype of the top Nazi who cannot surrender. Now, while keeping Hitler as the Führer symbol, Himmler does the dictator's job of maintaining Germany at war. Around himself and his henchmen he has formed the last granite-hard core...
Throwing Weight. Last week, according to the rumor mills in Switzerland and Sweden, Himmler went to the Führer's headquarters and raged against the "con servatism" of the Wehrmacht generals. In the old days, it was Hitler who raged. Last week Himmler was said to have jugged or sent to the rear one field marshal, six generals and 240 other officers accused of dickering with the Moscow-sponsored Free Germany Committee...
Manpower. Germany has about 90 divisions fighting on secondary fronts (Italy, the Balkans), or on garrison duty in Norway and elsewhere, or isolated in the French ports, the Mediterranean islands, Latvia. From Hungary to East Prussia, Hitler had about 180 divisions with which to face Stalin's great winter offensive. In December, he had about 80 divisions, including reserves, marshaled against Eisenhower in the west. Last week the Russians claimed 295,000 Hitlerites killed, 86,000 captured since Jan. 12, and 200,000 more encircled in East Prussia. The U.S. had claimed 90.000 enemy casualties in the battle...
...Crimes. Herbert Claiborne Pell lost his job as U.S. member of the United Nations War Crimes Commission. Alleged reason: no money had been appropriated for his work. He also suspected another reason: the State Department did not back his view that Hitler & Co. could legally be tried for crimes committed against their own people (including Jews). The State Department denied this charge, but the fate of the Commission, was in doubt because Sir Cecil Hurst, British Commissioner, had already resigned after a similar disagreement with his Government...
...picture is directed to the last gasp and shudder by Robert Siodmak (Christmas Holiday, Phantom Lady), who was born in Memphis, Tenn. but developed his talent for terror in the great studios of pre-Hitler Germany. Notably frightening scene: suspicious Inspector Ridges re-enacting the probable method of murder for the appalled widower while the camera, taking possession of Laughton's brain, flicks from bit to bit of the scene of the crime, turning a dark wardrobe, a torn stair-carpet, into so many kicks in the emotional midriff...