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...German-born rocket expert who has become the best-known U.S. missileman. The picture starts with some noisy experimentation conducted by a teen-aged Von Braun (somewhat less than convincingly portrayed by a middle-aged Curt Jurgens), then cuts to Peenemunde, a remote marsh in western Prussia where the Wehrmacht in 1937 established a Raketenentwicklungszentrale for the German rocket buffs. Von Braun, then only 25, was put in charge of the technical side of the program. When the Reich collapses. Von Braun & Co. flee south to offer their secrets and services to the U.S. Army. Set up in White Sands...
...career officer in the Wehrmacht, Gehlen had charge of intelligence on the bloody Eastern front. Late in 1944 he reported that the Russians were planning a huge winter offensive, accurately predicted that it would crush the Nazis' Eastern armies. Hitler raged that Gehlen's report was "the greatest bluff since Genghis Khan," shouted that he should be sent to a lunatic asylum. Replied Chief of Staff Heinz Guderian: "Then send me there with...
...town by the Germans, who don't like to be reminded by their presence of the partisans' power, the fallen women take to the woods, filch food from farmhouses, steal boots and guns from dead Germans, shoot two Home Guards who try to rape them, ambush a Wehrmacht reprisal party, and finally join the same band of partisans that had punished them. Happy ending? Not with 70 minutes still to go. "I must warn you,'' Heflin thunders at the fresh recruits, "that our law forbids sexual relations." Reason: "Bad for morale." Penalty: death. The idea...
...goes well until the easygoing Italian commandant (Ronald Lewis) is replaced by a Wehrmacht colonel (Albert Lieven) who soon begins to suspect that the convent's Christian charity is not necessarily limited to Christians. At the last, the suspense is enough, as the Italians say, to make the Devil sweat holy water...
...Refugee Minister Theodor Oberlaender, 54, who was a political officer with the Wehrmacht's Nightingale Battalion of pro-German Ukrainian nationalists when they entered Lvov in 1941. Before an international commission in The Hague this month, Oberlaender denied a charge that he ordered the massacre of 2,400 Ukrainians, Poles and Jews at Lvov, declared that the Russians did it before he got there...