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...Order in France last week had all the orderliness of a jungle. The persistent feud between the German army and Adolf Hitler's Schutzstaffel (Elite Guard) had reached well across the German border into France. Having been given full police power in the Reich and occupied territories, the Schutzstaffel plastered Paris with posters proclaiming new cruelties to the Jews. Whereupon men in German army uniforms went through the streets and tore many of the posters down...
...fear had materialized. Last week Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare admitted that economic contact had been established between Germany and Japan. Small quantities of rubber had reached the Reich from Jap-controlled rubber lands; since Dec. 8 several shipments of German machine tools had left Europe for Japan...
...Nazis were known to have dispersed their U-boat industry throughout the Reich and occupied territory to evade the R.A.F., breaking up such pre-war building centers as Hamburg, Kiel, Bremen. Relentlessly the R.A.F. has searched out new plants and plastered them with explosives...
...Baltics. In countries outside the Reich the Germans were not so subtle. They ran into a wall of stolidity trying to convince Dutch burghers that a new Netherlands Empire awaited them in the scrawny Baltic lands of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Even the so far comparatively well-behaved Danes began "accidentally" pushing German officers into Copenhagen's canals. So bitterly were the Poles still resisting that, despite fresh slaughters each week, the occupying authorities had tried to set up a Polish puppet government to keep order. When no puppets could be found, the Germans released their rage...
...whose ribs Heydrich had broken was Erwin Eugen Johannes Rommel, now a field marshal of the German Reich. The only man on earth whom Rommel looks up to is Hitler. And he looks down contemptuously on all other men in the entire continent of Africa...