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...President's martinis? ("This is an excellent martini," Pug says to a beaming F.D.R. "It sort of tastes like it isn't there. Just a cold cloud.") Hitler's nervous little knee kick is familiar, but what about those "snatching, greedy fingers" as the Führer gobbles iced cakes at a reception? There are no great scenes. But a number seem splendidly effective. Among them: a Russian tank battle in the snow; an exchange of cheers and threats at a Kremlin party for a visiting U.S. delegation in 1941; Americans-including Henry's daughter...
...aversion to photographers and public appearances, his notoriety as a superspy has always made General Reinhard Gehlen a controversial figure. As head of German military intelligence on the Eastern Front during World War II, Gehlen so infuriated Hitler with his precise predictions of Soviet victories that der Führer ordered him sent to an insane asylum. Instead, he fled to the Bavarian Alps, and later made a deal with the invading Americans: 50 cases of secret data on the Red Army in return for U.S. financial and political backing for what became Bonn's postwar espionage organization...
After he replaced Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess in 1941, he exercised virtual control over everyone Hitler saw and everything Hitler read. As executor of Hitler's estate, he was the first to enter the room in the Führerbunker after Hitler's suicide. Turning the government over to Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, Bormann fled the bunker on the night of May 1, 1945, in an attempt to slip through the tightening Soviet ring of tanks and troops only 300 yards away. Somewhere between the bunker and Friedrichstrasse Station, Martin Bormann vanished...
...assemble a riveting portrait of the skillful Nazi corruption of an already rotting society. Grunberger even examines the peculiarities of Nazi speech and humor. Of all the jokes that a few dared whisper about Hitler, perhaps the most revelatory of him, and of the Germans, has the Führer in a fishing boat with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Mussolini. Chamberlain puts out a line, patiently lights a pipe, and within two hours has landed a respectable catch. Mussolini jumps into the water and grabs a fat pike. Hitler orders the pond drained. As the fish flop about...
TWENTY-SIX years after Adolf Hitler shot himself to death in his Berlin bunker, the face of the late, unlamented dictator has become an acute embarrassment to the Austrian government. Der Führer, whose likeness appeared on at least 15 different stamps in dozens of denominations, commissioned a special issue for his 54th birthday in 1943. The Austrian State Printing Office, a Nazi enterprise at that time, printed the stamps in Vienna. No one knows how many went into circulation. But when the Third Reich fell two years later, some 20 million remained, and they have been gathering dust...