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Guerrilla. In World War II, Khrushchev took charge of the mass guerrilla movement that scorched the black earth of the Ukraine in the Wehrmacht's rear, won the Stalingrad Medal for his services as a political commissar. At war's end he went back to the war-charred Ukraine with orders from the Kremlin to 1) revive its agriculture and heavy industry; 2) liquidate the Ukrainians who had collaborated with the Nazis. He succeeded on both counts. "Half the leading workers have been done away with," he boasted...
...that their home lay in the Edelhofdamm, a street dividing West and East Berlin. The Fehlauers had almost reached their lodgings when three Russian soldiers guarding the end of the street took them into custody for no apparent reason. Old Mrs. Fehlauer fainted. Willi Fehlauer, a quick-witted former Wehrmacht colonel, told the Russians that it was a heart attack. Said he: "You don't want a dead woman on your hands; let us take her back." The Russians hesitated, but let Fehlauer have his way, following behind...
Spinning Passenger. It was this experience which inspired Willy to tack a motor on his rucksack parachute and turn it into a strap-on-the-back flying machine. It was not an entirely new idea. One devised by the Wehrmacht, for example, worked nicely, except that it spun the passenger almost as fast as it spun its rotors, depositing the dizzy victim on the ground in no fit condition to fight for der Führer. Willy devoted most of his postwar resources to exterminating such bugs: he sold his house and car, hocked his radio shop...
...From every nook in Germany they came. There were 119 generals and 40-odd colonels-much of what is left of the stiff-necked high command of Hitler's Wehrmacht. They met early this month in a smoke-filled beer hall in the U.S. zone city of Stuttgart; their host was a self-styled "aristocrat and man of the world": Ernst von Reichenau, brother of the Nazis' famed Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau...
...vetoed by other nations under the terms of the European Army Treaty. Typical was Luftwaffe Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel, the one-legged Panzerknacker (tankbuster) whom Göring improbably credited with one Russian battleship, two heavy cruisers and 532 Red army tanks in 2,500 sorties. Decorated with the Wehrmacht's highest combat honors,* Rudel escaped to Buenos Aires at war's end, sold his memoirs (Nevertheless . . .) and, despite his wooden leg, bested all comers as tennis player, swimmer, skier and mountaineer...