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...have consulted astrologers about the most favorable date for his departure), got invited to lunch at the castle of Heinrich Himmler, commander of the concentration camps and the SS. Wulff was impressed by "the cordiality of his welcome" but dismayed by Himmler's "lack of breeding." The Reichsführer SS sat "sucking his soup like a peasant...
...Esteemed Reichsführer." A far shriller and more demanding voice in Germany today is that of Adenauer's arch political enemy, Socialist Kurt Schumacher, 56. It is not the voice of cooperation, but the high-strung voice of a nationalist, a patriot gone zealot. Schumacher is a frail, cadaverous man of unexpected vigor. He gave his right arm to the Fatherland on the Russian front in World War I, lost his left leg following his ten years in Nazi concentration camps. In the Bundestag, where he holds great sway, he is a frightening performer. He jabs at every...
Inside the school were Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, "the last Reichsführer," and his ill-assorted but determined ministers-Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, acting premier, foreign minister and minister of finance; Franz Seldte, labor minister; Herbert Backe, agriculture; Julius Dorpmüller, transportation; and Albert Speer, Hitler's master of production. All but Dorpmüller were hyperactive Nazis...
...General Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg (head of the German Navy since Admiral Doenitz became Reichsführer) to reply. Grey-faced and grim, that scion of a long line of Prussian officers asked permission to surrender three German armies-not those facing Montgomery to the north but those facing the Russians to the east...
...matter of question able honor but material gain. The "Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism," endorsed by Vichy, offered recruits a tidy 40 francs a day (against the ten francs paid by France's "Armistice Army"). In German uniforms and tricolor brassards, they swore fealty to the Reichsführer and were exhorted to avenge Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Men with families in concentration camps learned that joining the legion would free them...