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...devoted wife, became a dead ringer for Rudolf Hess. Luis Van Rooten's Heinrich Himmler is verisimilitudinous enough to make flesh crawl. Even when resemblances are not quite accurate, casting and the general performance are psychologically effective. Goring's jocund tigerishness is embodied by a bulky Hungarian named Alexander Pope. Martin Kosleck does not look much like Joseph Goebbels but manages to capture Goebbels' sidelong glide, his peculiar blend of cynicism and venom. As the niece whom Hitler is supposed to have seduced and murdered, Poldy Dur is a suitably nubile stimulant to any psychopath...
...Budapest, puppet Admiral Nicholas Horthy issued the war's first Hungarian order of the day: "The war is now approaching its final phase. . . . Once more [it is] a matter of the immediate defense of our fatherland...
...latest conductor to make a first-class impression on U.S. musical criticism is George Szell (pronounced Sell). This week the husky, formidable-mannered Czecho-Hungarian winds up a season at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera during which he has directed some of the finest Wagner the U.S. has heard in a generation...
Suddenly Hitler switched, graciously allowed his guest to think matters over. That night, while the old man dozed and thought, Nazi paratroopers dropped silently on dark Hungarian airfields. Before the early morning mists had lifted on Monday, March 20, German infantry motored into Hungary, deployed to seize every important rail and road center and all communications. Abruptly Budapest Radio ceased using as a theme the Rakoczi March with its impudent first line: "God of the Hungarians, destroy the German Army...
Archduke Felix, third-string heir to nonexistent Austria-Hungary's nonexistent Habsburg throne, was royally feted by U.S. diplomats in Uruguay, less royally received by Uruguay's powerful, liberal Austro-Hungarian colony...