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Knoke's mold was that of most young Germans raised in Hitler's Reich. Born in Hamelin town, the son of a Prussian policeman who believed in the strap (for discipline) and the rifle (for exercise), he was press-ganged into the Hitler Youth and taught that the Führer knows best. When Germany attacked Poland ("to liberate the terrorized Germans"), Knoke wrote in his diary: "The prospect of actually experiencing war rather appeals...
Coffin Lid. The turning point of the air war came when the Allies sent long-range fighters-Mustangs, Lightnings and Thunderbolts-to escort daylight bombers deep into the Reich. Engaged on equal terms, and soon outnumbered, the Messerschmitts came off worst. Knoke was shot down twice more in a month, but even after he suffered a fractured skull, he flew on. "Every time I have an enemy in my sights ... I watch him crash, coldly and dispassionately, without any sense of triumph...
...Volkswagen plant in the little North German town of Wolfsburg, about 100 miles west of Berlin, had been built by Hitler to turn out "people's cars" for the 1,000-year Third Reich. In World War II it was 60% destroyed by Allied bombs. Rain slashed through the holes in its roof after V-E day while a motley crew of 8,000 refugees and former soldiers grubbed about in the ruins. Half were cleaning up rubble; the others were virtually hand-tooling a few vehicles for the British occupation army. Falling bricks were a constant menace; live...
Nordhoff is scornful of the original subscribers' claims. Says he: "They put their money and their trust in the 1,000-year Hitler Reich. Why should they profit through this trust while others lost all they had?" Nevertheless, he has prudently put aside an estimated $50 million against an adverse court decision...
Energy, Ambition, Work. Like so many turning points, it was a long time in the reaching, but it was a shorter time than even the most sanguine German had a right to expect when he crawled from the smoking rubble one day in 1945 to learn that the Nazi Reich was no more. And, as with most great, historic turns, it was made possible by countless events. There was the decay of the wartime Alliance, Russia's shortsighted intransigence in the German occupation. There was the West's decision to form one unified country of West Germany without...