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...Adolf Hitler proclaimed Porsche a Nazi hero, commissioned him to design the Third Reich's famous "people's car" (Volkswagen). Porsche produced a design, but the Nazis, who built only 200, abandoned the project (after milking some 300,000 Germans for advance payments) and assigned Porsche to design weapons, notably the famed Tiger tank. In 1945, he was arrested by French troops and after a trial, jailed for two years as a war criminal...
...most accomplished tax dodgers. According to Hale, whose study in the American Historical Review is based on an analysis of Hitler's income-tax forms seized in Munich at war's end, Hitler owed the government some $150,000 in 1934, after his first year as Reich Chancellor. In December 1934, without any formal legal action or the knowledge of the German public, Hitler was excused from his back taxes, after that enjoyed royalties on Mein Kampf and his salary as Chancellor tax free...
...Picture. When the Red army smashed into the Reich, Gehlen fled west, taking his files with him. He made three copies of each of his records and deposited them at three different addresses. Later, when the Cold War came, U.S. intelligence officers found the Gehlen files invaluable. Gehlen was flown to Washington and returned to Germany with the secret understanding that he would rebuild his intelligence apparatus and set it to work for both the U.S. and Western Germany. Reportedly, his terms included that he never would have to operate against the "German interest," and he himself would...
...pictures portrays a figure in jack-boots and a Sam Brown belt whipping a group of slaves, while the other depicts an attack by a party of modernly equipped warriors upon an enemy using shields and spears. The museum, however, still officially denies any direct analogy to the third Reich...
...prude. One night he dragged the embarrassed Kubizek off to inspect Vienna's red-light district, and later lectured for hours on the evils of prostitution. Not much better than prostitution, in his opinion, was the cosmopolitanism of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Even then, he ranted about the "Reich of all the Germans,'' the need for racial purity...