Word: nazi
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Born in Würzburg, Neckermann worked in Berlin during the Nazi era, acquired for a bargain price a textile mail-order house belonging to a Jew who was forced to sell and flee. Neckermann joined the Nazi Party, did well selling uniforms to Hitler's armies during World War II. After V-E day, the Allies confiscated Neckermann's property and put him in jail for a year. He kept up his textile contacts and in 1950 set up business in a rented barracks at a refugee camp, where labor was especially cheap...
Died. Kurt Bolender, 54, onetime Nazi SS sergeant who was working under an assumed name in a Hamburg brewery in 1961 when he was arrested as a war criminal, accused of having murdered some 360 inmates and assisted in the deaths of 86,000 more at Sobibor, a World War II extermination camp in Poland, charges he denied throughout his long, still uncompleted trial; by his own hand (he hanged himself in his cell, leaving a suicide note insisting that he was innocent); in Hagen, West Germany...
Precisely at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of May 2, 1945, the men of 22 Nazi and six Italian Fascist divisions in northern Italy laid down their arms. The surprise mass surrender, which involved nearly 1,000,000 troops and led only days later to Germany's complete capitulation, could only have been engineered. It was, in fact, one of the most stunning triumphs in the history of secret wartime diplomacy. The Allies' Operation Sunrise was bossed principally by Allen Dulles, who was later to become director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency...
Dulles' narrative is straight out of the best spy fiction. In Switzerland in 1942 he established an OSS listening post that listened right into Nazi Germany itself; for example, he knew months in advance of the generals' plot against Hitler in July...
Private Line. Later that same year, Dulles' people began to pick up fascinating intelligence in the form of peace feelers from Nazi leaders assigned to northern Italy. As the tide turned against the Nazis, these overtures grew in number, so Dulles decided to pave a channel of communications for the enemy...