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Mellern did not have a gas chamber, but it had a crematorium and it worked overtime. Fat Obersturmbannführer Neubauer, the camp's director, had a chauffeured Mercedes, a Hitler mustache and a good stock of real cigars. He had persuaded himself that his was the most "humane" camp in the Third Reich. Weber, the assistant who actually ran Mellern, despised such sentiments; he frankly enjoyed turning living skeletons into dead ones...
...Charles Scribner's Sons in Manhattan included a copy of the declaration which launched the Franco-Prussian War, signed by Kaiser Wilhelm, and priced at $2,750. It was a gift from Rudolph Hess to his good friend Adolf Hitler and inscribed in gold: "To the Führer, Christmas, 1938, in which year he twice overran borders in order to bring back German territory into the Reich." Among half a dozen other books from the Führer's personal library: autographed first editions by Authors Alfred Rosenberg, Joseph Goebbels and Ernst Roehm; a German translation...
...Esteemed Reichsführer." A far shriller and more demanding voice in Germany today is that of Adenauer's arch political enemy, Socialist Kurt Schumacher, 56. It is not the voice of cooperation, but the high-strung voice of a nationalist, a patriot gone zealot. Schumacher is a frail, cadaverous man of unexpected vigor. He gave his right arm to the Fatherland on the Russian front in World War I, lost his left leg following his ten years in Nazi concentration camps. In the Bundestag, where he holds great sway, he is a frightening performer. He jabs at every...
...Patricia Knight) and conveniently committed Adler to prison. Hitler failed to reckon with a vengeful zeal and a talent for impersonation that enabled Adler to move painstakingly up the Nazi social ladder in the successive roles of the prison warden, Hitler's valet, and finally the Führer himself...
...rest of the film deals with the progress of the conspiracy and with Rommel's rather lefthanded endorsement of the plotters' aims. To convince himself he has no alternative, Rommel visits Hitler for a tingling interview. He comes away more depressed by the Führer's irrationality than by his ideology. But when the attempt is made on Hitler's life, Rommel is again in the hospital, this time having been shot up by British fighter planes while directing the crumbling German defenses in Normandy. During the blood purge of the conspirators, Rommel gets...