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Johannes Leppich, son of a Silesian farmhand, was a Jesuit novice when the Nazis thrust him into the Reich Labor Service. He chopped trees in Pomerania, he played in Labor Service bands, he served in the army, and finally returned to the Jesuits. After Germany's defeat, he preached to refugees from the Eastern zone and former soldiers. But he yearned for a larger challenge. In 1949, in a circus tent in Essen, he began a "crusade for ethical revival...
Alias Mr. Brown. In May 1939, while still Premier, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Commissar. Three-and-a-half months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Both sides solemnly swore to "refrain from every aggressive action"; the effect was that the Reich was free to attack the democracies while Russia grabbed half of Poland and the Baltic Republics: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. Then Hitler invaded Russia. Talking before Allied diplomats, Stalin would speak to Molotov of "your treaty with Ribbentrop." Stalin startled Sir Stafford Cripps by offering to sack Molotov, if the British wished...
Died. Hugo Sperrle, 68, German field marshal who directed the 1940 aerial blitz of London; in Munich. Massive, monocled and elaborately uniformed, Sperrle flashed almost as many medals as his boss Reich Marshal Hermann Goring. He helped organize the Luftwaffe, probably did as much as any man in setting the pattern for aerial combat in World War II. Judged not guilty of war crimes and "non-concerned" about Naziism, he lived out his days quietly in Landsberg...
...Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors of the defeated French at Versailles. The Dibeliuses were a family of civil servants and clergymen -an uncle of Otto's was court chaplain to the King of Saxony-and he was brought up, as he tells it, "in the Reich tradition." The hero of his student days at the University of Berlin was "Bismarck, of course." In 1906, following a year at the University of Edinburgh, he entered the ministry of the Lutheran Church...
Choose Thirty. They were, in fact, a company of the SS division Das Reich, commanded by 55 Major Otto Dickmann. Through an interpreter Major Dickmann now called for the mayor of Oradour...