Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revelations appeared in the latest batch of captured Nazi documents published jointly last week by the British, French and U.S. governments. Coburg's "Strictly Confidential" report was addressed "Only for the Führer and Party Member v. Ribbentrop (No Copy)," and said of Edward VIII that "for him a German-British alliance is an urgent necessity and a guiding principle of British foreign policy." Coburg eagerly suggested that discussions about future relations be held between Hitler and Britain's Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. The King, said Coburg, "replied in the following words: 'Who is King here...
...dark, brooding, badger-faced man living in near-total oblivion in the enormous stone pile that is Spandau prison. But in May 1941, when Rudolf Hess suddenly landed in a cow pasture in Scotland and asked to see the Duke of Hamilton, the Deputy Führer of the Third Reich was full of high hope...
...that he hated. Ironically, one of the most dramatic chapters concerns not Hess but his faithful aide Major Karlheinz Pintsch. Assigned by Hess to break the news to Hitler, Pintsch journeyed apprehensively to Berchtesgaden, his romantic belief in the heroic flight dwindling as he neared the Führer's presence. Hitler invited him to lunch, had him arrested after the dessert...
...plan was reasonable enough. Hitler did want peace with England. Earlier efforts to draw Churchill into negotiations had failed. The Führer probably knew what Hess was up to, Leasor theorizes, and tacitly permitted it, carefully avoiding precise knowledge of the details to keep himself from implication if the mission failed. When it did fail, he followed the advice Hess left him in a parting letter and declared that Hess was the victim of "hallucinations." Moreover, in the spring of 1941, Leasor asserts, England was nearer to capitulation "than anyone now likes to admit." Winston Churchill was so afraid...
...onetime SS leader, the name "Heuser" kept cropping up in connection with terror against Jews near the Russian city of Minsk. But "Heuser" meant nothing until the Central Office cross index turned up the grisly testimony of a witness at the Nurnberg trials who recalled that one "Obersturmjührer Georg Heuser" had poured gasoline over a dozen Jewish prisoners and burned them alive at Minsk during the war. A series of leads sent investigators to Koblenz, where they found Heuser, now boss of the criminal police for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. He had risen with...