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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Security officers rushed to the camp. They took him to a brick villa outside Lüneburg, stripped him, found a tiny blue glass vial of poison in his clothes. Then a British sergeant major and a doctor searched him-under his arms, in his ears, his hair. Finally the doctor decided to look into Himmler's mouth. The prisoner quickly ground his jaws, and fell to the floor. He had concealed a second poison vial in his mouth, and had broken it with his teeth. The potassium cyanide worked quickly:* in 15 minutes he was dead...
...execution, Himmler's captors let his body lie for two days on the floor where he had fallen. Medical authorities removed the brain, took plaster casts of the skull. Finally, a British Army detail, sworn to secrecy, buried the unembalmed body in a grave on the heath near Lüneburg. There was no coffin, no marking on the grave. The shifting sand would soon obliterate the last sign; there would be no site for a martyr's monument...
Instantly all parties protested. Cried the Communist L'Unità: an "intimidating maneuver." Sighed the monarchist Italia Nuova: a "regrettable incident." Embarrassed, the Allied military authorities released Nenni, hinted that his arrest was due to the excessive zeal of an Allied...
...Robert married Gaby L'Hote, a pretty, brown-eyed Conservatory student who was the daughter of a Marseilles fonctionnaire. Three days after the wedding Robert joined the staff of the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, and he and Gaby spent three terms with the carefree American students at Louis XV's summer shack...
Hitch. The Government's sudden 50% increase in A gas coupon values had a catch to it-tires. President A. L. Viles, of the Rubber Manufacturers Association, announced that the May quota of passenger tires to be released (1,500,000) will be 33% short of the number needed to keep essential civilian cars on the road through the summer months...