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...justification" in Flick's plea that German industry itself was being persecuted in his person. As for the $40,000 yearly payments to the Nazi Party, Judge Sears said it was perhaps "not too high a premium to insure personal safety in the fearful days of the Third Reich...
...have read Lucky Forward and find that it is the most authentic work yet done on Patton, the Third Army or the ETO high command. However, since I was [with] General Patton from the time of the landings in North Africa until war's end in the Reich, perhaps I did not view his activities from the vantage point enjoyed by TIME'S book editor nested away in New York City...
Command Decision is focused on the less happy, indeed the downright harrowing, aspects of authority. As Brigadier General K. C. Dennis of the Air Forces (ably played by Paul Kelly) sees it, unless the jet-plane factories deep inside the Reich are swiftly destroyed, jets will soon cover the sky and immeasurably prolong the war. So, day after day, he orders the bombing of those factories, though his losses are appalling and the thought of the losses tears him apart...
...there had never been any doubt about the views of its editor. A crusading and widely respected internationalist, Armstrong contributed many a cogent article to its pages. He was one of the first to cry havoc over Hitler's Reich, as early as 1937 (in We or They) had convinced many Americans that democracy could not safely live in a world with fascism. Long before Pearl Harbor, he urged all-out aid to the Allies. At the San Francisco Conference, he was a State Department adviser...
...Book-of-the-Month Club, picks up the pieces where Gisevius drops them and reconstructs a Wagnerian drama of the suicide "love death" of Hitler and Eva Braun. His evidence, gathered from documents and survivors, is circumstantial but pretty convincing. From the Führer-bunker, deep under the Reich Chancellery garden, the war "was directed by somnambulist decisions," he says. Russian shells crashed down overhead; Berlin was almost surrounded; in G.I. slang, the doomed party leaders were getting "bunker happy." Hitler himself deteriorated rapidly...