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...Reports from Germany last week said that Reich Marshal Hermann Göring had taken to wearing a toga...
...Germans were showing amazing toughness and recuperative power under the endless air scourge of Allied planes from Britain and Italy. They took a loss of over 700 fighters in November, but their dispersed and hidden assembly plants were more than able to replace it. In October the Reich had shuddered under the second heaviest bomb tonnage of the war,* but its oil production had crept up (according to Allied intelligence) from 23% to 30% of 1943 capacity...
...stake was big enough, the decimated Luftwaffe was still willing to take terrific losses, the German pilot was still willing to gamble his life against overwhelming odds. This week 200 German interceptors rose to battle a U.S. fleet of 1,100 heavy bombers and 700 fighters over the Reich's largest still-active natural oil refinery, at Misburg. In the fight, 122 German planes (61%) were shot down. But they drove a hard bargain before the fight had ended. Thirty-seven U.S. bombers and 13 fighters were reported missing. Percentagewise (3%), the U.S. crew loss...
...halls of Berchtesgaden would ring with Adolf Hitler's death yells. Last week the Albert Einstein of music, sad-eyed Composer Arnold Schönberg, took artistic revenue on the man who in 1933 swept him and his cryptic music from the concert halls of the Third Reich. The revenge: a recitation based on the booming rhetoric of Byron's Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, with string orchestra accompaniment by the New York Philharmonic...
Where was Adolf Hitler? He had not been seen or heard since July 21. Last week for the first time ever, he failed to address the Reich on the anniversary of his Munich Beer Hall Putsch...