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...founding brains of this tremendous machine, according to Riess, were Walther Nicolai, Ludendorff, Goebbels, Himmler, and above all Rudolf Hess, "the only really great adventurer of the Nazi Party." It grew out of Nicolai's conversations with Ludendorff on the nature of total action; out of Goebbels' and Himmler's intelligent respect for the methods of Lenin (the Gestapo was "a complete plagiarism of the OGPU"); and out of Hess's studies under Geopolitician Professor Karl Haushofer. Haushofer assigned his star pupil the study of Japan-a study which Hess promptly narrowed to "Japan and Espionage...
...first time since the flurry over Rudolf Hess's arrival in Scotland, Winston Churchill referred last week to Britain's most distinguished uninvited guest. He did not answer any questions as to Hess's mission; instead he used the flyaway Nazi to nail home for British listeners the point that there had been a great improvement in the Battle of the Atlantic...
Marlene Dietrich met Husband Rudolf Sieber in Manhattan for the first time in nearly two years, embraced and re-embraced him for cameramen. In explanation of the longtime separation, she offered: "We've both been too busy. Haven't had time...
...some 3,000 war prisoners (excluding men able to fight). For two days last week two shiploads of military (wounded) and civilian (interned) German prisoners were held up at Newhaven as rumors flew thick & fast that scheduled sailings had been delayed because Adolf Hitler demanded the return of Rudolf Hess, who went A.W.O.L., so that he could clap him into a Nazi insane asylum...
Thyssen's first contribution was indirect -about 100,000 gold marks to Ludendorff for a Hitler-Ludendorff coup against the Communist Government of Saxony. (It did not come off, but turned into the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.) In 1928 Rudolf Hess went to Thyssen and told him the Nazis were hard put to pay for the Brown House they had bought in Munich. Thyssen arranged a loan through the banks. Only a small part of it was ever paid by the Nazis; Thyssen paid the rest himself. Hermann Goring wanted to enlarge his apartment "to cut a better...