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...rust of revolt was corroding the mighty German war machine; Army officers had tried to kill Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime (see FOREIGN NEWS). The attempt itself marked a fateful trend within the Reich; even more significant were the admissions by Hitler and his new chief of staff, Colonel General Heinz Guderian, that the proud German officer corps was disaffected, that officers on active service were involved in the plot...
...Germans stayed three days finishing up, throwing the scorched bodies into a ditch, burning everything that stood. Then, on June 13, the Führer Regiment of the Reich Division left Oradour-sur-Glane...
...outcome of all this, said the Observer, would be to rip up the Reich, throw Germany back into the chaos of little states which Bismarck made a nation, and thus wreck the victors' plans for a united but weakened Germany. In the confusion, the underground Nazis would do their damndest to make life impossible for the occupying troops, keep "a ruthless grip on a cowed population." Concluded the Observer...
...Berchtesgaden eyrie. Strauss refused. As an old man of 80, he said, he felt entitled to privacy and peace. Nazi officials took the matter to Hitler himself. The Führer declared that Strauss's recalcitrance would mean the cancellation of his birthday celebrations throughout the Reich. Strauss replied that Hitler could cancel anything he wished, and added: "It was not I who started this...
...shocked Nazi silence, the reverberations echoed for days. Then Hitler apparently decided that for the prestige of German Kultur the Reich's chief cultural asset should have his sulky way. The incident was hushed up. Strauss was allowed both his privacy and his birthday parties, his only punishment being the refusal of a passport to Zurich, where he planned to conduct a gala performance of his opera Elektra...