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Protected Criminals. The man who commanded the division, SS Brigade-führer Heinrich (Heinz) Lammerding, became a successful building contractor in Düsseldorf after the war, even though a French military court in Bordeaux condemned him to death in absentia in J951 for the Tulle hangings. Lammerding is one of about 1,000 war criminals who were convicted in absentia by French courts after World War II but are still free in Germany...
...seen as a prediction of the world's foundering in technology. Goldberg's contraptions used owls and trumpets to nominate people for political office, pistols and crows to feed an infant and rock its cradle. There was even a Hitler-kicking machine that gave the Führer his comeuppance via a cat, a mouse and a stripteaser. Goldberg constructed chains of causality that could be as illogical as life itself. A 1950 cartoon: "Truman (A) plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia secret papers (B)−fumes (C) overcome Republican Senator (D), who falls back, causing spoon...
...scale models. The tens of billions of dollars needed to realize these halls, palaces, chancelleries and stadiums were dissipated in war. None of his biggest projects, like the Nuremberg stadium, were built, and most of the monuments of Nazi architecture were pulverized by Allied bombs. But the Führer's intentions come clear in a handful of his designs culled from Speer's personal archive, on view this month at the New York Cultural Center...
...Speer thought he saw in the Führer an alternative to the Weimar Republic's decadence. In Hitler's monumental designs, he hoped to escape such dreary projects as garage annexes and a house for his in-laws. In these memoirs, drafted in Spandau Prison while he was serving a 20-year sentence for war crimes, Speer recalls: "For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles...
...first, he writes, "political events did not concern me." As a good technocrat, he agreed to the use of forced labor in order to bolster armament production. After the plot to assassinate Hitler failed on July 20, 1944, Speer briefly toyed with ways to kill his Führer. But, he admits, "I could never have confronted Hitler pistol in hand. Face to face, his magnetic power over me was too great up to the very last...