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...Hate Americans." Ex-Wehrmacht General Reinhard Gehlen, who is as secretive as any of his 5,000 men (his last known photograph dates from 1944), set up his outfit in 1947 with the cooperation of the CIA. It was staffed largely with veteran agents who got their training under the Nazis, although Gehlen himself had never joined the Nazi party. In 1955 the Gehlen apparatus was turned over from CIA control to the West German government; it reports directly to the Chancellor's office, has a top secret budget. Yet in court, the three men who penetrated its walled...
...novelties to offer. It gives a straight forward account of civilian resistance to a German occupation after Badoglio's surrender in September, 1943. The citizens of Naples hail the armistice, then discover that Hitler intends to defend Italy and treat his former allies as a conquered people. When the Wehrmacht starts rounding up men for labor crews in Germany, Naples rebells. Four days later the harassed Germans release hostages and abandon the city...
...Nazis deprived themselves of all this when they fired Physicist Born for something called "Jewish physics." Franck quit, and others scattered. Gottingen did not remotely recover until after World War II, when it took in a wave of avid students in tattered Wehrmacht uniforms -"the best generation we ever had." recalls one veteran professor. It also welcomed a new source of research renown: the independent Max Planck Institute for Physics, named for the late pioneer of the quantum theory, and headed by Physicist Heisenberg, discoverer of the "uncertainty principle."* Though Heisenberg moved his staff to Munich...
Fraternity Foolery. Göttingen's students are today sometimes less satisfying than the Wehrmacht veterans. One-third of the men belong to Korporationen (fraternities), and despite vigorous faculty disapproval, they have an irrepressible yen for Germany's most adolescent atavism -dueling. Göttingen is also a notable Arbeitsuniversität (grind school), meaning that its relatively unprosperous students work extra-hard and pile up Teutonic tensions. Yet all is not blades and blood; the duelers are equally enamored of progressive jazz, hikes on picturesque "Stallion Hill," and lipstickless coeds with hair the color of sunlit beer...
...takes a hard look at his position. He holds the city, but he might as well be holding a nest of vipers. The Allies are advancing, and he obviously cannot fight them and the Neapolitans too. Humbly he requests the victorious vulgarians to grant him a truce; ingloriously the Wehrmacht scuttles out of town...