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Heinrich Himmler, who in life looked like a cross between a wasp and a pig, looked different in death. His death mask (see cut), taken near Lüneburg, Germany, after his suicide (by swallowing potassium cyanide), might have been mistaken for that of a daft and drunken Silenus...
...British finally caught Rudolf Hoess in a farmhouse near Lüneburg where he had been hiding. They would soon put him on trial as a war criminal. In some ways, perhaps, he was the greatest of them all. He told his story with quiet authority, as though lecturing to a class, underscoring his points with deliberate gestures of his well-kept hands. He still sounded rather bored; only occasionally did he show signs of nervousness-when he reached for his hip pocket, as though searching...
Seven days later, the U.S. quarter master at Berlin asked the U.S. quarter master at Frankfurt why the train had not arrived. Frankfurt passed the query on to British headquarters at Lüneburg. Inch by slow inch, yards of red tape unwound. Five days later came the report: the train had passed promptly through the British zone...
...Russians had clamored: "When will they hang the dog?" Last week at Lüneburg, a British Army court sentenced Joseph Kramer, the "beast of Belsen," to death by hanging. His blonde, sadistic assistant, 22-year-old Irma Grese, and nine others were sentenced to the same death. Fraulein Grese sobbed. Of the 33 other defendants, 14 were acquitted, one got life, five got 15-year sentences, 13 got one to ten years...
...neburg, undeterred by such considerations, the British prosecutors last week rested their cases against Kramer & Co. For reasons and in a fashion totally incomprehensible to the Germans, British defense attorneys then did their human duty...