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...three-quarter inclination of strict attention. Occasionally, a muscle twitched in his thin neck. Once, Hausner said sarcastically that "if the swastika flag were again to be raised with shouts of 'Sieg heil I', if there were again to resound the hysterical screams of the Führer, if again the high-tension barbed wires of the extermination centers were set up-Adolf Eichmann would rise, salute and go back to his work of oppression and butchery." Eichmann drew together his thin lips and stared with stony disapproval at the prosecutor...
...last film record of der Führer: a brief ceremony, conducted a few hours before his death, in which he congratulates a-starry-eyed troop of embattled adolescents, loyal to the last. He looks strangely peaceful, almost happy...
Secret Knowledge. Like any smart organization man. Eichmann realized he must develop a specialty to compensate for his lack of leadership qualities. His rather routine work of compiling dossiers on "subversive elements" suggested a convenient subject-the Jews, who were the pet phobia of der Fŭhrer himself. Eichmann began reading Jewish history and religion, made an effort to learn Yiddish and Hebrew. He dazzled his colleagues-whose hatred of Jews was only equaled by their ignorance about them-with speeches on such abstruse subjects as the factional differences between two small Zionist groups-Poale-Zion and Zeire-Zion...
...enforcement officers walked up to a strapping woodcutter bending over a power saw deep in the dark North German forest of Sachsenwald. "Hands up!" shouted an officer, and the surprised lumberjack allowed himself to be handcuffed without resistance. Thus the law finally caught up with former SS Sturmbannführer Richard Baer, 49, last commandant of Hitler's infamous Auschwitz extermination camp...
...Friday, April 13, 1945. the Russians were in Berlin; the center of the city was aflame. Hitler, a physical ruin, still looked for a miracle, and now Goebbels called the Führer in his deep bunker to tell him the miracle had happened: "My Führer, I congratulate you! Roosevelt is dead! It is written in the stars...