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...bewildered people of Germany knew what had happened; so did the five-million-odd foreign workers in the Reich. Stockholm reported that in Berlin 10,000 Italians went on strike, demanding to be sent back to Italy immediately, and that demonstrators sang the International, made bonfires of portraits of Hitler, Nazi Party membership cards and insignia. Leaflets were circulated: "Germans, what the Italians can do we can do. . . . Only the Nazis stand in the way of that peace for which we all long. Down with Hitler, Goebbels and Göring." In most cases the police avoided open conflict with...
...Stockholm also reported that in bomb-shambled Hamburg demonstrators demanded an immediate end to the war and an active struggle against Hitler. Many local Gauleiter had fled; those who remained were unable to cope with the situation. Late in the week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler arrived to supervise restoration of order in the least Nazi of German cities...
...Wrote the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter's Berlin correspondent: "Nobody could deny that it is the biggest shock of this war for the Germans...
Nobody could argue the point. Her last three pictures had won her an international reputation. The Stockholm Daily News had named her as one of Sweden's ten outstanding women. It was only a year since she had led a fan-magazine poll as the most popular screen actress, any weight or country, in Sweden.* Although she was being sought by every major studio in Hollywood, it seemed to her a little worse than foolish to let anyone, at any price, try to improve on her life...
...that time, however, one of the cagiest men in one of the cooniest communities in the U.S. had seen Miss Bergman's Intermezzo. He usually got what he was after; and he was determined to get her. While calm Miss Bergman sat in Stockholm flicking off her wrist offers which nearly every actress in Europe would have rolled over and begged for, she reckoned without David O. Selznick. In that failure of reckoning began a sort of duel, and a sort of wooing, as rare in Hollywood as victorious talent...