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Captive Hermann GÖring told U.S. interrogators: "In your aerial warfare you had a great ally - the FÜhrer." GÖring im plied that Germany would have won if the air war had been left to him, said that his Luftwaffe had developed a marvelous jet fighter "that was to sweep Allied bombers from the skies." Hitler rejected...
Ernst ("Putzi'') Hanfstaengl, Harvard graduate and ex-pianist-in-waiting to the ex-Führer, prepared to return to the fatherland after six years in British custody. Home Secretary Sir Donald Somervell announced that Putzi, who last saw Germany in 1937, was not on the Allies' list of war criminals...
...ripples on Flensburger Forde glittered in the bright sunlight as Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, last Führer of the Third Reich, marched stiffly up the gangplank of the Patria, an old German liner housing a SHAEF mission. His long blue coat whipped at his knees, and his aides followed him in single file...
...Julius Streicher, onetime Führer of Franconia and publisher of the pornographically anti-Semitic Stunner, who had contributed as much as any one individual to the torment of European Jewry. Jailed, he maintained that he had tried only to get the Jews out of Germany and into Palestine. But, gazing at his jailers, he would scream in the next breath: "Jews, Jews, Jews-Since I was taken all I have seen is Jews...
...Britain's inner defenses against Hitlerism, something the Führer himself would never have understood, was a modest little feature tucked in the back columns of the London Times. It was neither more nor less than a daily quotation, usually, but not always, from the oak-timbered British past, "a passage old and true [to] keep high the heart and fortify the mind." Samples...