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...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...
...against my will," he became Ambassador to Ankara, hoping "to do what I could to avert" a general war. Four months later, Hitler pressed the plunger for World War II. He "grossly misled me again," complains Von Papen. But he stayed at his post anyway "to limit the conflict," i.e., to keep the Turks from fighting on the side of the Allies. Eventually, Turkey broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and Von Papen returned to the Reich after the German officers' plot on Hitler's life had failed. He claims that he "fully expected to be arrested...
...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...