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...leader of the democratic Agrarian Party, was a patriot. He fought the Nazis and spent part of the war behind German barbed wire. After the Russians put the small Bulgarian Communist Party in power, Petkoff opposed the Communists led by the old Comintern agent, Georgi Dimitroff, hero of the Reichstag-fire trial...
...some years a Prussian civil servant, later vice consul in Zurich, Author Gisevius claims to have been a member of an eager, unstable and heterogeneous group which schemed against Hitler from the Reichstag fire (1933) down through World War II. He regards Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg (the man who nearly killed Hitler on July 20, 1944) as a Johnny-come-lately with half-Nazi ideas of his own. It was Stauffenberg who lugged a bomb-laden briefcase into field headquarters at Rastenburg, East Prussia, and left it to explode under Hitler's nose. The blast gave Hitler...
From Bastille to Reichstag. Father Roger Rault, curate of La Poterie, near Lamballe, was also accused of complicity in the plot, but was left in provisional liberty. A dozen machine guns were found in his house. When newsmen badgered him for an interview, he pinned a statement to his door: "The police have found in my attic the following: two 35-ton tanks, two batteries of 75-millimeter howitzers ... 35 engines of a type not yet invented, half an atomic bomb...
...prison in Brittany and the Fresnes prison near Paris. They were scheduled to be stormed Aug. 6, and collaborationists kept there were to be armed. Commandos were to cut rail lines, seize communications centers. Anti-Communist fears were to be whipped up by a series of disasters on the Reichstag Fire model...
Amiable Arthur Greenwood, Labor's deputy leader, rose to defend the guillotine as "a new experiment resting on the authority of this House." Pink-cheeked Tory Quintin Hogg, looking like a bad-tempered baby, cried out: "Call it the Reichstag and be done with it." Greenwood thrust back: "I think all the potential Führers are on the other side...