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Some of the preparations, of course, had a slightly nervous tinge about them. Ever since the engagement was announced last spring, a small but angry Dutch minority had denounced the match because Von Amsberg had served, at the age of 16, in Hitler's Wehrmacht. Half of Amsterdam's 45 city councilors refused to attend the wedding, as did the rabbis of three leading synagogues. But what really had the cops in a swivet was a bunch of high-spirited university students, who called themselves the Provos (meaning provokers). They came out emphatically against the monarchy, Germans, capitalism...
...MEMOIRS OF FIELD-MARSHAL KEITEL, Chief of the German High Command, 1938-1945, edited by Walter Gorlitz. Completed just before the author was hanged as a war criminal, this memoir by Hitler's top military man gives a fascinating account of the last days of the Wehrmacht as well as a chilling insight into the moral myopia that afflicted the Nazi high command...
...stiff, drill-field prose comes alive only during his account of the War's last month. As the Russians swarmed across the Oder to ward Berlin and Hitler took sullenly to his bunker, Keitel and his faithful driver took off on a quixotic swing to rally the shattered Wehrmacht forces around the capital. He relished the experience: hasty lunches of pea soup in a forest command post, ducking into ditches to avoid strafing Allied fighters, brave speeches to the scared kids and old men in ill-fitting Volkssturm helmets who had been left to defend a crossroads. Keitel devotes...
Neither May nor Keino is exactly a parvenu-except to the mile. A sturdy 23-year-old whose father was killed fighting with the Wehrmacht in World War II, May holds the world mark for 1,000 meters. He earns his living as a sports reporter for an East German daily newspaper, gets all the time off (with pay) he needs to compete abroad and pursue a carefully supervised regimen that requires him to run 50 mi. a week in practice. Keino, the world record holder at 3,000 and 5,000 meters, is a skinny...
...letters addressed to Von Amsberg's 71-year-old mother in West Germany, and signed "with hate," to a petition with 66,000 signatures protesting the wedding. As the argument raged in Parliament, ex-Resistance Hero Frans Goedhart arued that "Von Amsberg cannot help having been in the Wehrmacht, but one can get into a position that makes one unsuitable for certain functions, like an invalid who cannot take part in athletics...