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Hitler's Dream. Then terrible news came into headquarters: "The Führer has dreamed that no V-2 will ever reach England." The project's priority dropped another notch...
...Russian-held village on the other side pulverized in a matter of minutes by German planes and guns. When the infantry attacked, there was no resistance, only dazed old people and the smell of burning flesh. As a newly arrived lieutenant had reflected the night before: "The Führer can work wonders...
...typewriter-tapping of tracer on fuselage and rudder. Captain Heinz Knoke, winner of Nazi Germany's coveted Rit-terkreuz and the youngest squadron commander in the Luftwaffe, pinpoints his most vivid memory high above Helgoland, one July day in 1943. In I Flew for the Führer, Knoke tells how his Messerschmitt squadron loaded up with 500-lb. fragmentation bombs and climbed high above a formation of U.S. Flying Fortresses. To break up the deadly formation, which few German fighters could penetrate, Knoke was experimenting with a dangerous new technique: dropping bombs on the bombers...
...hrer Knows Best. A jerky mixture of airman's logbook and autobiography, Knoke's is the first full-dress narrative to appear in the U.S., told by one of the losers, of the great air battles that were fought over Western Europe in World War II. As a professional flyer's scrapbook, it makes gripping, convincing reading, but it is spoiled, perhaps inevitably, by a scum of Nazi notions that nine years' retrospect and the detergent efforts of a British editor have signally failed to remove. Introducing Knoke, Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada, wartime...
...mold was that of most young Germans raised in Hitler's Reich. Born in Hamelin town, the son of a Prussian policeman who believed in the strap (for discipline) and the rifle (for exercise), he was press-ganged into the Hitler Youth and taught that the Führer knows best. When Germany attacked Poland ("to liberate the terrorized Germans"), Knoke wrote in his diary: "The prospect of actually experiencing war rather appeals...