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Grasping Hand. Eichmann's first contribution was the organization of special SS Einsatzgruppen, who followed the Panzer columns as they rolled deep into the Soviet Union and machine-gunned all Jews they could lay hands on. The SS method for distinguishing between Jew and Gentile was quite simple: any Russian who "looked Jewish" was summarily shot...
Although in later installments (previewed last week for the press) the program fills the air with Messerschmitts and Supermarine Spitfires, shows Panzer tracks across the tulip beds of The Netherlands and bomb explosions muffled in the soft sands of Dunkirk, the series is much more than newsreel shots and selected quotes. Its staff of nearly 250 has also collected brief, extraordinary commentaries from the low and the mighty of the Churchill years-housewives. Tommies, Clement Attlee, Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing...
...October 1 the Panzer divisions rolled into the Czech Sudation land. Anxious to see for himself a continent on the brink of war, Kennedy received permission to spend the Spring term in Europe. Staying at American embassies, he chatted with politicians and citizens in Poland, Russia, Palestine, Turkey, the Balkans, Berlin, and Paris...
When Nazi Panzer divisions overran The Netherlands in World War II, one of the places they headed for first was the great Philips company electric works at Eindhoven. But hours before their arrival, 25 top Philips scientists and executives slipped away via British destroyers, carrying with them vital secrets that contributed to radar and other wartime developments. Left behind, loyal Philipsmen cheerfully sabotaged what production the R.A.F. did not pulverize. Last week Philips President Frans Otten gave the latest progress report on Philips' amazing comeback. In the first nine months this year, sales of Philips' worldwide empire reached...
...landings had taken place in fair weather. The 124 planes of the 26th fighter wing stationed near the coast were pulled back on June 5. The only daylight action of the Luftwaffe on D-day was one two-plane air strike. For twelve hours, Jodl refused to release two Panzer divisions that might have been thrown in, and feared to interrupt Hitler's pill-drugged sleep with news of the invasion until the official Allied communique. Wakened in the forenoon of June 6, Hitler ranted, as always, at his generals, and clung to the illusion that the invasion...