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Cheers for Hitler. With Verwoerd at the helm, Die Transvaler was less of a newspaper than a political broadsheet...
Died. Alexander Ernst von Falkenhausen, 88, German general, a Prussian Junker who was military overseer of Belgium and Northern France during World War II until his complicity in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler ended his career, then despite his claim to anti-Nazism, was convicted as a war criminal in Belgium but, granted an amnesty, left the country with this bitter entry in the customs book: "Ingrata Belgia, non possidebis ossa mea";* of a heart attack; in Nassau, West Germany...
...Socialist, he was a pacifist. But he was also tough. When the Germans invaded Belgium in 1940, the German ambassador called on Foreign Minister Spaak to read a statement from Hitler. The German never got a chance to speak. "My turn first, Mr. Ambassador," said Spaak, before he threw the German out. Escaping from the Wehrmacht, Spaak spent the war in London as Foreign Minister of the Belgian government-in-exile...
...actually stood trial, eleven were sentenced to hang, seven received prison sentences, three were acquitted. Condemned to death, Reich Marshal Hermann Göring committed suicide by poison in his prison cell. Ten Nazis-including Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Armed Forces Chief Wilhelm Keitel, and General Alfred Jodl, Hitler's chief military adviser-died on the gallows...
...from democracy, one obvious alternative to fascism. Its closeness to nature and opposition to organized civilization are, in fact, as integral components of Nazism as the military order of Pentheus. The Dionysiac cult is the ancestor of the same Wagnerian heritage that gave illegitimate birth to Hitler. For while fascism may in practice defy the wandering, uncivilized Wagnerian prototype, it derives from it nonetheless...