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East Prussia, bloodied by history, was a fitting arena for the first real battles on German soil in World War II. But it did not seem so to the Germans in East Prussia. They, according to reports in Stockholm, exhibited "the highest state of alarm." At Königsberg the Nazis were said to be dismantling the port installations. The wife of Gauleiter Erich Koch departed for the German interior with three truckloads of furniture...
Rundstedt could scarcely pass a fanaticism test. A devout and amoral Junker, he gives his basic loyalty to the German military tradition rather than to the Nazi Party. After his dismissal last week, a Stockholm rumor promptly had him under house arrest. More probably he retired to his country place in Bad Nauheim with his phonograph records (all military marches by brass bands) and his collection of buttons and epaulets of all the world's armies...
...battles far from home. While the Allied will to fight was being sapped, German political warfare would drive a wedge between the Anglo-Saxons and the Russians. Then two paths would open a negotiated peace with either the Eastern or the Western Powers. Contacts were already being made in Stockholm and Madrid...
...Permanent Fight." From Stockholm came the details of a weird Nazi plan to save Naziism after the war is lost. Count Anton von Knyphausen, for years a German correspondent in Helsinki, said that he had decided to quit the Nazi cause, would gladly tell the Allied world what he knew...
Moon Professor. The buzz-bomb's inventor, by Stockholm report, is Hermann Oberth, 50, professor of physical astronomy at Berlin University. A stiff, old-fashioned pedagogue, Professor Oberth has long been famed in Europe as a writer on occultism and a pioneer in the study of interplanetary rocket flying. In 1923, when he published one of the first schemes for projecting a rocket into interplanetary space, he was nicknamed "the moon professor." He also predicted murderous rockets capable of being sent halfway around the earth and exterminating whole populations...