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Early in the war, the Führer had confided that he really wanted peace with England but the British would never make peace if it meant losing prestige...
Rudolf Hess decided that here was just the job for him. If he, the Führer's friend and deputy, a Reichsminister, and an SA and SS Obergruppenführer, personally flew to England, certainly Churchill could negotiate without losing face...
...Obergruppenführer Hess could hardly assume that many people would consider him misplaced...
Belched Danube. Their first big seller, in 1942, was the Hitler lampoon, Der Führer's Face. When it sold a phenomenal 1,500,000 records, Spike took the City Slickers on a road tour. Recalls Spike: "We were too corny for sophisticated people, and too sophisticated for corny people." But by the end of the tour, collectors and radio disc-jockeys were calling for more. He set about deflating some of Tin Pan Alley's more pretentious tunes. The City Slickers played Chloe straight, with all the tom-toms and jungle mating cries that everybody else...
...ring laughed, bowed, took notes, eyed pretty girl reporters in the gallery. He gave an interview to the Associated Press in which he defiantly proclaimed himself a "true paladin of my Führer" and declared that, if he had the choice, he would do the whole thing over again. Generally, his courtroom poise was much better than it had been twelve years ago, when Communist Georgi Dimitroff made a fool of him at the Reichstag fire trial...