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...Mustn't Bawl. The simple footslogger passes this test best in The Cross of Iron. Novelist Heinrich's officers are petty martinets, Nazi careerists, or weary Wehrmacht regulars who have long since sent their consciences on permanent leave. Steiner tangles with one of them, his Führer-minded C.O., and exposes him for the cowardly lump of jelly he is. In the meantime even the old soldiers die. Dorn and Kern are blasted to shapeless pulp by artillery shells. Schnurrbart is mistakenly murdered by a homosexual German officer settling a private score. It is a quiet...
...Stalin worship, had their troubles adjusting to the new line. In satellite Poland, Communist newspapers published pictures and laudatory biographies of Polish Communist leaders executed by Stalin. Hungary's Communist Party Boss Rakosi, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht (who likened Stalin worship to the Führer cult) and Italy's Togliatti each made statements downgrading Stalin's position. In Manhattan Daily Worker Editor Alan Max asked himself aloud some surprisingly pertinent questions: "Many things bother a person like myself: Where were the present [Soviet] leaders during the period when they say that collective leadership...
...finale with their own eyes. One was his old pilot, SS Major General Hans Baur, who was captured in Berlin. Baur said positively that Hitler and Eva Braun were dead. "Hitler said goodbye to me and then shot himself," Baur told newsmen. Baur did not see the Führer's body...
...other ex-prisoner was Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, who was held for interrogation for three years in Moscow before being sent to a P.W. camp. The Führer and Eva, said Linge. "were alone in one of the bunker rooms. Eva Braun took poison. Hitler shot himself. I carried his body out of the bunker and then helped pour the gasoline over it." He watched for five minutes while flames devoured the leader of the master race. If Linge spoke the truth, this was at last the incontrovertible eyewitness testimony needed to declare Adolf Hitler legally dead...
...recently published memoirs, My First Seventy-Six Years. Interviewed by indifferent or downright hostile London newsmen, Banker Schacht had glib answers for questions. His estimate of West Germany's booming postwar recovery? "When you start from zero, all progress seems imposing." His main recollection of Der Führer? Replied he: "Hitler was a betrayer and a madman, but he was a genius, as so many criminals are." Then the visitor registered pained indignation. "The moment I discovered that [madness]," said Hjalmar Schacht, a Nazi minister without portfolio until 1943, "I separated from him and worked against him. That...