Word: hjalmar
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Finnish General Hjalmar Siilasvuo, with five divisions, began a drive from the south, slowly pushed the Germans back. With their direct route to Germany cut off, the Nazis could retreat into Norway or into neutral Sweden. But there was no question of peaceful surrender to the Finns, as the armistice framers seemed to expect-few Germans would willingly follow the road to a Russian prison camp...
Millions of Germans learned penitential drills and marches, made penitential trips abroad. Soon Chief Penitent Friedolin's "Shepherd's Council" included a "Shepherd for Aviation" and a number of "Shepherds Without Crooks" - all veterans of World War II. Penitent Hjalmar Schacht became "Shepherd for Finance" - and soon Russia went bankrupt and there was no gold left in Fort Knox...
...Trott zu Solz, a Foreign Office man who had spent the summer trying to make Allied contacts in Stockholm. Trott had a plan for overthrowing Hitler, but he wanted assurance that Germans would be rewarded with something better than unconditional surrender. The Nazis talked of trying (and hanging) Hjalmar Schacht, passed sentence of death in absentia on General Walther von Seydlitz, head of Moscow's League of German Officers...
...Junker taken Rundstedt's removal as a signal that the time had come to strike against the Nazis? Three months ago Allied intelligence officers had heard reports of a Wehrmacht coup in the making. Rumors linked Rundstedt's name with men like Finance Wizard Hjalmar Schacht, onetime Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath, Baron von Weizsacker, Ambassador to the Vatican, former Oberbürgermeister Karl Goerdeler of Leipzig and numerous less well-known diplomatic, industrial and old-time Government figures...
...longtime Oberbürger-meister (Lord Mayor) of Leipzig, and Price Controller of the Reich under Brüming and again in the first years of Nazidom. A confidant of industrialists, old Reichswehr officers and big-shot civil servants, Goerdeler was linked with" a nationalist underground involving Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schacht. Goerdeler vanished on the day the Gestapo tried to pick him up. This might be a sign of the extent and organization of the anti-Nazi group. But in the dissolving nightmare of the Nazi Götterdämmerung, Goerdeler's disappearance could just as well...