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When Hitler's SS bullies were still in knee pants, the Frankfurter Zeitung was a great and influential liberal newspaper, respected the world over as "the Manchester Guardian of Germany." In 1934 the Zeitung was briefly suppressed for printing Franz von Papen's one & only anti-Nazi bleat (attacking the "fanatical" wing of the Party). After that the Zeitung kept its tongue in cheek. Skillfully buried in its dreary business columns were more facts about Hitler's Germany than were reported anywhere else; its editorials condemned anti-Nazi incidents as a means of reporting them, and slyly...
Into the Allied net swam the second biggest fish yet caught: smooth, grey Franz von Papen, 6 5-year-old ex-Chancellor, longtime instrument of German dagger diplomacy. Only Rudolf Hess, who had flopped up on the bank of his own accord, was a greater prize...
...patrol picked up Papen in the Ruhr. They found him dining alone in elegant splendor. He wore his accustomed knickerbockers (he is proud of his legs); on a couch rested a Tyrolean hat with a rakish feather. "There are no German soldiers here," he said in impeccable English. " I can't imagine what you want with...
...Papen moved out of the Czechoslovak legation where he had lived for four years, went home. Within minutes his servants were knocking at other embassy doors, hunting jobs, and explaining that they would never act as German spies. Also making the rounds was Czech Representative Milos Hanak, explaining that now he hoped he would get his legation back...
...Russian Secret Agents George Pavlov and Leonid Kornilov reappeared. They had been locked up in 1942 for trying to kill Ambassador von Papen...