Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago, Punch's Editor Malcolm Muggeridge had lifted a rare voice of dissent from Britain's course, comparing Eden to Chamberlain: "The fault of Chamberlain was not in sacrificing Czechoslovakia, but in believing that Nazi aggression and Hitler's long record of perfidy would thenceforth come to an end. It was Chamberlain's sincerity, not his villainy, which led him astray. His crime was to make a fool of himself, and therefore...
...time. One key to his character was his hatred of Naziism, a single-minded purpose which had forced him to lead a double life. During World War II, he served simultaneously in the Abwehr (Wehrmacht counterintelligence) and as a British secret-service contact. He was legal adviser to the Nazis' Lufthansa Airline and a secret anti-Nazi resistance worker. One memorable day ten years ago last week. Otto John landed at war-battered Tempelhof Airfield, where his brother, Hans, waited...
...When that day ended in failure, Hans was in Gestapo custody and Otto was flying back to Madrid for his life. In Madrid, he dyed his blond hair black, went on to Portugal and to the British (who used him to interrogate important German prisoners). Brother Hans lingered under Nazi torture until the night of April 22, 1945. Then, as the Russians penetrated Berlin's suburbs, the Nazis faced Hans to the wall and blew open the back of his head. He was one of the last men they killed for complicity in the July 20 plot...
Some of John's old friends still could not believe it. "He is absolutely a man of Western ideas." said a Bonn diplomat. "He was against all totalitarian systems, Nazi and Communist," said a Berlin colleague. But whether he had sold out, defected, or had been lured across, the ugly fact was that, voluntarily or involuntarily, Otto John could give the Communists more valuable information than anyone since Klaus Fuchs...
...wish that they be hanged like cattle." The eight were stripped, and as they shivered in the chilly dawn, their necks were encircled by short, thin string attached to meathooks in the torture chamber in Plötzensee Prison. Each man was then dropped to strangle slowly. Nazi cameramen captured the convulsive spectacle on film, and that night Hitler ran off the movie for the enjoyment of himself and his guests...