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...Later? In London, Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes announced that "all exponents of the Nazi Party and Reich Government on Czech territory" would be held criminally responsible for the killing of Czechs and would be executed on the day of victory. Obviously, however, threats of post-war action could do no good, since the Nazis long since have gambled everything they have on winning...
...Shortly after he came to power, Hitler met healthy, olive-skinned Eva Braun, 20 years his junior, assistant to his official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman. For seven years she was Hitler's mistress, with her own apartments in Berlin's Reich Chancellery and at Berchtesgaden. Under her influence he shifted from nightshirts to pajamas. He gave her an engagement ring and bought a custom-built Mercedes intended as a wedding present. But war, not Eva Braun, claimed Adolf Hitler...
...host the uninvited guest brought the Great Cross of the German Order of the Eagle,* one of the Third Reich's most dazzling decorations. Mannerheim, reciprocating, buttered up the Nazis by calling them brothers in arms, hoped this year might "see the end of Bolshevist barbarism." Afterward he held what Berlin called "lengthy conversations" with Hitler and other Nazi surprise guests: Chief of Staff General Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and newly promoted Colonel General Eduard ("Bull") Dietl...
Dismissing the fond notion that the Third Reich can easily be starved into submission, the picture aptly illuminates the Nazis' use of food to control their conquered peoples. In stricken cities food is used to lure skilled workers to the Nazi war industries; in other places food is removed so that Jews and unwanted nationals will die. Those who play ball with the Nazis eat better than those who don't. The Nazis know that the undernourished are too numb to revolt...
...said Heydrich. "We killed 82 of them the first four days after I got hurt. And we'll kill hundreds more. We'll kill them or they'll kill us. There must be no Czecho-Slovakia left, no one left in Europe who opposes the German Reich. You might have thought it was an old-fashioned idea to round up hostages and shoot them by the hundreds when one of the conquerors is killed. It isn't. It's effective, and after a while it becomes pleasant, too, whether the hostages are Jews...