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...Bulgaria was slated for a bigger role. Hungarian sources reported that Premier Filoff had hurried to a Berchtesgaden session with Adolf Hitler; he may also have seen his old acquaintance, Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. No one doubted that he would get Gestapo support to suppress Bulgaria's underground, anti-German, patriotic front. What the Führer needed above all was more manpower, more help from Bulgaria's Army to guard against a possible Turkish thrust and to stiffen Italian garrisons in Greece...
...September 1939, as the Panzers clawed across Poland, Adolf Hitler grandiloquized: "I now do not want to be anything but the first soldier of the German Reich. I, therefore, again put on the uniform which once had been most sacred and dearest to me. I will take it off only after victory." Over an unprepared, divided foe, victory that very month seemed near...
Next morning, with Germany seething with rumors of unrest, there was still bigger news. All German home affairs were placed under Gestapo rule as Heinrich Himmler, dread head of the Nazi secret service, was named Minister of the Interior and "Chief of the Reich Administration...
...Combination of Forces. In this new kind of air war, U.S. Fortresses fly-as they did last week-500 miles into Germany to hit Nazi factories at Schweinfurt -(producer of more than half the Reich's supply of roller bearings). At the same time, other Fortress forces-as they did last week-fight their way 600 miles into Germany to hit Regensburg on the Danube (Messerschmitt-101 fighters), turning south later to cross the Alps and the Mediterranean and land at North African bases. At the same time, U.S. medium bombers and fighters stage widespread diversionary raids on Nazi...
Died. Colonel General Hans Jeschonnek, 44, since 1939 chief of staff of the German air forces; "of a serious illness"; at Reich Marshal Hermann Göring's headquarters. A World War I lieutenant at 15, one of Corporal Hitler's youngest generals, he planned the Luftwaffe's Polish knockout...