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Heinrich Himmler's lieutenants were cracking down on all Germans of mixed ancestry, no matter how great their skills. At an aircraft factory outside Leipzig was a ground mechanic, half Jewish, whose father had been killed by the Nazis, and whose mother had died of shock. Now he knew he faced a concentration camp. When he was ordered to taxi a new Junkers 188 twin-engined reconnaissance bomber down the factory field, he saw his chance and took...
Trials went on of men suspected of a hand in the July attempt on Hitler's life. Dr. Carl Goerdeler, onetime Oberbürger-meister of Leipzig, and said to be the ringleader, was hanged with six others. One of them was Adam von Trott zu Solz, a Foreign Office man who had spent the summer trying to make Allied contacts in Stockholm. Trott had a plan for overthrowing Hitler, but he wanted assurance that Germans would be rewarded with something better than unconditional surrender. The Nazis talked of trying (and hanging) Hjalmar Schacht, passed sentence of death...
...including the robomb coast. Bombers and fighters in the west now concentrated on Germany itself. Day & night, railroad centers behind the West Wall and industries in central Germany took 1,000-plane doses of bad medicine-all the bad medicine which western Europe had previously had to share. Over Leipzig, while 1,000 bombers bashed oil plants, 800 U.S. fighters got a record battle's bag of 175 German planes. In two days of good hunting fighters destroyed 262 planes aground, 34 aloft...
...Three months ago Allied intelligence officers had heard reports of a Wehrmacht coup in the making. Rumors linked Rundstedt's name with men like Finance Wizard Hjalmar Schacht, onetime Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath, Baron von Weizsacker, Ambassador to the Vatican, former Oberbürgermeister Karl Goerdeler of Leipzig and numerous less well-known diplomatic, industrial and old-time Government figures...
Adolf Hitler's name was prominent-said radio reports-on leaflets secretly distributed throughout Germany. They offered ten marks (40?) for Hitler's capture, were signed Karl Goerdeler (see FOREIGN NEWS)-the fugitive mayor of Leipzig, on whose head after the recent anti-Nazi bomb plot the Gestapo set a price of 1,000,000 marks...