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Their prototype was Hans Heinrich Lammers, an old man of whom few Germans and few Americans had ever heard; yet on every Third Reich decree his name had appeared, in a bold, inch-high sweep below the scrawl "Adolf Hitler." In his defense Lammers claimed that, as chief of the Reich Chancellery, he had merely acted as a sort of "notary public" or "glorified mailman." The prosecution thought otherwise. Next to Hitler, Lammers had been one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany...
Under his real name of Colonel General August Heiszmeyer, Stuckebrock had been head of the "Ubergestapo"-the Supreme SS Tribunal, the Gestapo of the Gestapo. As Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Frau Stuckebrock was Hitler's No. 1 Nazi woman, director of all the women's organizations in the Reich. According to Nürnberg's war criminals' list, Heiszmeyer was "presumed dead," Scholtz-Klink was "dead." Witnesses had "identified" her body among those removed from Hitler's Berlin air-raid bunker...
Futile Success. In 1938, Pyke decided that Hitler could not be dislodged until Britain knew what the Germans really thought. He planned a sort of Gallup poll of the Third Reich-his investigators were to be disguised as a visiting British golf team...
...hrerprinzip. This means victory over the parliamentary system and over majority rule in all spheres of life and consolidation of all politically and productively superior forces of the nation. . . . Naziism intends to bring about the final rebirth of the nation and to safeguard the continuation of existence of the Reich, in the definite belief in its historic mission and in the future of the German people...
Yesterday's Communist coup in Czechoslovakia will have little affect on American policy in the Reich, Professor Friedrich believes, since the Russians already dominate one-third of Germany. "This development will mean merely an extension of the Communist border," he said...