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...Alibi. The bankrupt Reich's receivers did their utmost to absolve the German people and the German military command of responsibility for the war and the defeat. Blame went impartially to: 1) the Nazi party, no longer to be confused with the German nation; 2) an "unfortunate" shortage of equipment. This inferiority, the propaganda suggested, was no reflection on the power and genius of German arms and could be corrected next time...
...Defense. According to G&246ring, only G&246ring made any sense in the Nazi hierarchy, and only he understood the Allies. Hitler was "narrow and ignorant." Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Reich's deposed Foreign Minister, was "a scoundrel." Rudolf Hess, a prisoner since he flew to Britain in 1941, was an unpredictable eccentric. After the attempt to kill Hitler last July, even Heinrich Himmler fell from grace. At the last, the man closest to the Führer was Martin Bormann...
...April 24, said G&246ring, he asked Hitler to let him take over the collapsing Reich and negotiate a surrender to the Allies. According to" one of Hitler's stenographers, the Führer had already nominated G&246ring for his job (see FOREIGN NEWS). G&246ring's own account differed: he said that Hitler raged, condemned him to death, reprieved him when G&246ring promised to give up all his honors and titles...
These men, headed by Berlin Communist Walter Bartel, had drafted a blueprint for Germany. They wanted: 1) a popular front of anti-fascist committees to provide the framework of an interim government; 2) re-establishment of a modified form of the Weimar Republic; 3) federalization of the new Reich to prevent domination by Prussia; 4) confiscation of all Nazi property; 5) close economic relations with Russia; 6) educational reform...
Adolf Hitler loved music-especially Wagner. In Mein Kampf, he had written: "My youthful enthusiasm for the Bayreuth master knew no bounds." The Third Reich, Hitler said, had its foundations in the German myths of Composer Richard Wagner, and the shrine at Wagner's Bayreuth was called "the Olympus of German art." In 1938 Hitler ordered that the military music of his favorite composer be used at all of Nürnberg's pagan rallies, and he sat for long hours at Berchtesgaden listening to recordings of Siegfried...