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...when Hitler's Wehrmacht was on the threshold of Moscow. Said TIME : "He [Stalin] had lived the Revolution. While the Lenins, the Trotskys, the Bukharins had hidden in foreign exiles, he had fought inside Russia. He came down through the years, to feel that he knew what Russia needed, and he would go neither too fast nor too slowly to achieve it, though it meant the ruthless execution of hundreds of his friends and the inhuman, starvation of millions of peasants...
...minute silent drill of the 558th Infantry Rifle Platoon, a crack Negro outfit which used to be General Lucius Clay's honor guard; the soldiers went without music or orders through intricate, breathtakingly precise evolutions that would have overwhelmed the British Grenadiers-or the Rockettes. Exclaimed one former Wehrmacht noncom: "Why, they're practically better than the Prussians...
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko sent a peremptory note accusing Finland of harboring more than 300 "war criminals," the last of thousands of Soviet citizens-Ingrians, Estonians, Karelians-who had fled as the Red army pushed back the Wehrmacht in 1944. The Russians specifically demanded the surrender of 65 of the fugitives for "treason." The hard-pressed Finns made some arrests, but it was clear that they would not find most of the fugitives. Gromyko knew this well: Russia had asked for the return of the "traitors" before, when Communist Yrjõ Leino was still Interior Minister. Not even...
This week in a hushed courtroom packed with German spectators, many of them with the stiff, erect bearing of former Wehrmacht officers, Manstein heard the verdict. He was found guilty on nine counts concerning execution and maltreatment of Russian soldiers and civilians; he was cleared of eight other counts, notably concerning the extermination of Jews. Then the court pronounced sentence: 18 years in prison. For 62-year-old Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, it was probably a life term...
Communist Max Reimann, leader of a bloc of only 15 votes in the Bundestag's 402, joined in the melee. When he described the Oder-Neisse line as the "boundary of peace," all parliamentary decorum disappeared. As the delegates raged against Reimann, two men in dirty, torn, Wehrmacht greatcoats, P.W.s just released by Russia, shoved their way into the chamber and yelled: "No home, nothing to eat, and then we have to listen to this Red gaff!" Communists charged a "provocation." Said one Christian Democrat delegate gloomily: "It's a good thing we still have an Occupation Statute...