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...Mind. Otto John was a complicated man, caught in the confusions and counterloyalties of his time. One key to his character was his hatred of Naziism, a single-minded purpose which had forced him to lead a double life. During World War II, he served simultaneously in the Abwehr (Wehrmacht counterintelligence) and as a British secret-service contact. He was legal adviser to the Nazis' Lufthansa Airline and a secret anti-Nazi resistance worker. One memorable day ten years ago last week. Otto John landed at war-battered Tempelhof Airfield, where his brother, Hans, waited...
...General Heinz Guderian, 65, organizer of Hitler's formidable Panzer divisions before World War II and their leader to victory in Poland and France, to defeat within sight of Moscow; of a liver ailment; in Schwangau, West Germany. No avowed Nazi but loyal to Hitler, Heinz Guderian became Wehrmacht chief of staff in 1944, sought in vain to remove Hitler's ban on retreat in the East, was later ousted and, as the war ended, was captured by U.S. forces. Never tried as a war criminal, Old Soldier Guderian pubished his memoirs, Panzer Leader (1952), lived quietly...
Blond, amiable Hans Werner Henze, who was drafted in the Wehrmacht at 16, rose to corporal, was dazed and worried at his reception. "It's simply a modern love story," he said. "Love and beauty are always expressed in pure dodecaphony [twelve-tone technique], but when I want to stress corruption and immorality the music becomes tonal. They say my opera shows evil, but how can one be evil when one is sincere?" He had one consolation: "At least," he said, "nobody fell asleep at my opera...
...declared a holiday and thronged by the thousands to the waterfront one afternoon last week to welcome home a shipload of all but forgotten men: the last survivors of the ill-fated and ill-famed Blue Division that Franco sent off in 1941 to fight in Hitler's Wehrmacht on the Russian front. Captured by the Russians, the Spanish legionnaires had spent some ten years in Soviet forced-labor camps, were released and sent home as another installment in the Communist peace offensive...
...were many. The Russian plan would set up all Germany for an ultimate Communist coup. Even those Frenchmen who oppose German rearmament inside a European Army (EDC) were alarmed at German "national armed forces" as an alternative. It looked dangerously like the Reichswehr, which Hitler had built into the Wehrmacht. As for Molotov's proposal that each occupying nation withdraw all its troops from Germany, Bidault commented wryly: "I can well see the advantages for the Soviet Union in withdrawing part of its troops a few dozen kilometers [the distance from Berlin to Poland: 50 miles] to the rear...