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STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. An engrossing biography of the mystical and aristocratic Wehrmacht colonel whose daring attempt to assassinate Hitler with a bomb brought him speedy execution by a Nazi firing squad...
STAUFFENBERG by Joachim Kramarz, translated by R. H. Barry. 255 pages. Macmillan...
...failures usually get footnotes, at best. In the 23 years since his death by firing squad, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the German officer whose attempt to assassinate Hitler with a planted bomb was foiled by a freakish chance, has rarely rated more than brief references. Now German Historian Joachim Kramarz has pieced together the unfortunately sketchy materials on Count Stauffenberg's life and his daring plot in a readable full-length biography...
Former People's Court Judge Hans Joachim Rehse, 64, a member of Hitler's highest political tribunal, was sentenced to five years in jail for levying "unjustifiable death sentences." As a judicial consultant to the People's Court from 1941 to 1945, Rehse lived up to the letter of Nazi law, which called upon the courts to act "not as men of justice whose eyes are masked. The court must view the idea and purposes of the state leadership as primary, and the fate of human beings as secondary...
Swedish Explorer Johan Gunnar Andersson discovered several of its fossilized branches on Norway's Bear Island in 1899. Remnants of its fanlike leaves have since been found in Alaska. But it remained for Bonn University Paleobotanist Hans-Joachim Schweitzer to determine that an ancient plant called Pseudobornia ursina was actually a tree that grew as high as 65 ft.-50 million years earlier than other trees of comparable height are known to have appeared. On a recent expedition to Bear Island, Schweitzer reports in the current issue of the German journal Umschau, he unearthed the first portion of Pseudobornia...