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...decades since the end of World War II. The Germans won. After the failure of the Normandy invasion, a humiliated General Dwight D. Eisenhower retreated into retirement, Winston Churchill fled to exile in Canada, and virtually all Europe came under the domination of the Nazis. An Albert Speer-designed monument to the "thousand-year Reich" now dominates Berlin, the SS has become a peacetime police force, and nobody has heard of the Holocaust. But years of cold war with the U.S. -- and a stubborn guerrilla war with the Soviets in the East -- have begun to drain the German economy. Hitler...
...result of allegations that hsn chairman Roy Speer and others received improper payments from the company's suppliers, hsn is facing several Florida lawsuits and a federal grand jury investigation in Tampa. In addition, an hsn executive who threatened to blow the whistle on his colleagues was allegedly fired. Liberty Media, which owns a controlling interest in the firm, had planned to acquire the remaining shares but has withdrawn its offer as a result of the alleged kickbacks...
...facts about the desultory German effort but were worried that they were a smoke screen. Heisenberg, a Nobel laureate already famous for his work in quantum mechanics, was drafted for the weapons program in September 1939. But serious work halted in June 1942 when Heisenberg told Albert Speer, Hitler's war-production czar, that an atom bomb could not be produced fast enough to affect the outcome of the war. From then on, Heisenberg apparently wanted his old scientific friends in Scandinavia, Switzerland and the U.S. to know that Germany was working on power reactors, not bombs...
...strong support not only from the lower middle class but also from university students and professors. The existentialist Martin Heidegger joined the Nazi Party. Psychologist Carl Jung grew intoxicated with "the mighty phenomenon of National Socialism, at which the whole world gazes in astonishment." A young architect named Albert Speer found that Hitler's oratory "swept away any skepticism, any reservations...
...intrusions came to an abrupt halt, but the mystery persists. Was Speer % simply a clever hacker? Or was he a would-be mercenary or even an East bloc spy? Speer is apparently not telling, and the West Germans lack sufficient evidence to haul him into court. But back in Berkeley, an intriguing new lead has surfaced. Three months after Speer took the Star Wars bait, the lab received a request for more information on the bogus project. Postmarked Pittsburgh, it was signed by a reputed arms dealer with ties to Saudi Arabia. How could he have got the address...