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Feted with Champagne. Ludke, 57, a handsome, gregarious man, was not told of the suspicions against him until three days before he left the navy. The occasion was a champagne luncheon feting his retirement. After a laudatory farewell speech by Defense Minister Gerhard Schroder, Vice Admiral Gert Jeschonnek, the chief of the navy, and a counterespionage man took Ludke aside to question him. The admiral at first lamely explained that someone must have stolen the Minox to take the pictures. However, he later changed his story to claim that he wanted the documents for his memoirs. If so, they would...
Died. Colonel General Hans Jeschonnek, 44, since 1939 chief of staff of the German air forces; "of a serious illness"; at Reich Marshal Hermann Göring's headquarters. A World War I lieutenant at 15, one of Corporal Hitler's youngest generals, he planned the Luftwaffe's Polish knockout...
Propaganda Brew? Last week, for reasons known only to the Berlin Government, the official radio deliberately exaggerated the scope of recent changes. It "announced"' that 44-year-old General Hans Jeschonnek was now chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff, that Admiral Kurt Fricke had become chief of the Navy's General Staff. Actually, Jeschonnek has been chief of the Luftwaffe staff (under Inspector General Erhard Milch) since February 1939, and Admiral Otto Schnie-wind, whom Fricke allegedly replaced, has had another post (Fleet Chief) since 1941. Berlin, in short, was again manufacturing news for propaganda purposes...
Another central figure in the Luftwaffe's climax performance is General Hans Jeschonnek, who became chief of the Air General Staff in 1937 after the death (in a crash) of Marshal Milch's aide and crony, Colonel General Walter Wever...
Active commander of the Air Force and No. 2 German airman is Lieut. General Erhard Milch. General Milch was at Karinhall last weekend, and so was Chief of Staff General Hans Jeschonnek. They had a machine that might destroy a large segment of Western civilization. They may have discussed trying to do so, because this week the German Embassy in Washington took pains to warn that if Britain and France endangered civilians with more active warfare (see p.30) Germany would "retaliate blow for blow." It was respect for Hermann Göring's mighty machine that caused...
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