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...Konigsberg. Some of the panicky citizens committed suicide. Others began learning welcoming phrases in Russian. Count von Lehndorff, a civilian surgeon, awaited the end with Christian resignation and continued operating on wounded soldiers and civilians until a shell dismantled his surgery. A woman told him, "Our Führer will never permit the Russians to get us; he'd rather gas us first...
Died. Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, 67, British diplomat and Foreign Office expert on Germany, a High Commissioner in West Germany from 1950 to 1953, best known as the man sent hurrying to Scotland in 1941 to identify and interrogate Rudolf Hess after Hitler's Deputy Führer flew from Berlin (crash-landing his ME-110 fighter) in a mad attempt to negotiate peace with England; of a brain tumor; in Celbridge, Ireland...
...wipe his nose on!" More recently Mussolini, who frowned on the custom in any form, tried to discourage il baciamano. He might as well have tried to suppress spaghetti. The Nazis also deplored the Handkuss- good Germans were meant to give the Hitler salute instead-but der Führer himself was often photographed with his forelock fanning some actress...
...blows fell on the men who were conspiring to turn the world red with blood. Even as Chamberlain's umbrella went to Munich, Low's famous "Rendezvous" showed Hitler and Stalin tipping their hats to each other. Low's cartoons so infuriated der Führer that he sent off official protests to London...
...Eichmann was genuinely proud of his work; he thought he was doing the Jews a favor. He admired Zionists as "idealists" and said that he, too, wanted to give the Jews a home of their own. He was sincerely shaken, Arendt believes, when he learned of the Führer's "Final Solution"-to kill the Jews. "I now lost everything," he moaned, "all joy in my work, all initiative, all interest; I was, so to speak, blown out." But he quickly made the adjustment. He became as efficient at transporting Jews to the death camps...