Word: papen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Hitler Hoppegarten enjoyed a kind of ghostly glory: Goebbels and the bemedaled Göring strutted about the grounds, and Franz von Papen brought the top-hatted diplomatic corps to the betting booths. There were still some good horses. But World War II ended everything. "When the Russians found a good horse," said a sad West Berlin trainer last week, "they either ate it, shipped it to Russia, or tied it to a plow...
...from the U.S. Army came Louis Morton's The Fall of the Philippines, Volume 19 of its projected 87-volume official history, and one of the best so far. From the enemy side came documents of such varying value as Ciano's Hidden Diary, Franz von Papen's Memoirs, The Rommel Papers and Hitler's Secret Conversations, a collection of curious drivel that must have the remnants of his followers wondering how they could have swallowed similar stuff...
...Papen was arrested and tried at Nürnberg on charges of having conspired to wage war. He was acquitted, but the British prosecutor, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, told him: "You had seen your own friends, your own servants, murdered around you . . . The only reason which could have . . . made you take one job after another from the Nazis was that you sympathized with their work...
Franz von Papen's autobiography does little to change that appraisal...
...Papen has been widely suspected of organizing the 1916 munitions explosion at the Black Tom pier in Jersey City, N.J. and the 1917 explosion that wrecked the Canadian Car & Foundry plant at Kingsland, N.J. In 1939, a Mixed Claims Commission found Germany guilty of both blasts, but Von Papen still denies responsibility...