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...stock companies and 1,900 corporations were liquidated. In the occupied countries little businesses were either killed or incorporated into monster Reich state concerns, such as Göring's Gustloff Works...
...autumn of 1942, this last dream was dead. Göring, Krupp and other mammoths were taller and fatter, little businesses were withering away. In December the official Reich Office of Statistics announced that by September 1942, state insurance paid to firms closed by war had reached 44 million Reichsmarks-more than double the amount paid out in 1941. A recent issue of the Essener National Zeitung (Göring's paper) announced, as evidence of the success of Industrial Dictator Albert Speer's rationalization program, that in the past six months the number of firms producing special...
Allied successes in North Africa gave them ideas. The Magyars went to work. Last week they ordered 20,000 Hungarian workers home from Germany by year's end. Berlin, angry, warned that the departing Hungarians could take no money out of the Reich. But the German mark no longer meant as much as it had in months past...
...music. As World War II approached, many of the league's European members wavered between exile and totalitarianism. Spain's famed Manuel de Falla (The Three-Cornered Hat) signed with Dictator Franco. Parisian Composers Arthur Honegger and Florent Schmitt toured Germany as honored guests of the Third Reich. Italian Modernist G. Francesco Malipiero began writing Fascist anthems for Mussolini. Unable to cope with political wanderings, in 1939 the embarrassed league restricted its composer membership to U.S. citizens...
...Germany," said Mussolini, "will give powerful assistance in the form of antiaircraft artillery to insure Italian defenses." He did not mention an estimated 250,000 German troops now in Italy to resist invasion-or to shoot Italians who do not fight. The arrival of Reich Marshal Hermann Goring and of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler last week was expected to mean complete German control of military and civilian defenses. Germans realize that successful completion of the Allied invasion of North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants...