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...Norwegians cared little. But it was different when the Nazis invaded Norway and Hamsun told his countrymen: "Norwegians! Throw away your rifles and return home. The Germans are fighting for us and now are crushing England's tyranny over us and all neutrals." In Washington the Norwegian Minister, Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, doubted that Hamsun had said this. If he had, said Minister de Morgenstierne, "I am inclined to credit it to a very old man's tiredness and anguish...
...others of his pattern-Junkers Bock, Leeb, Reichenau-the democratic world can be thankful that by now the mold is probably broken. It is unlikely that Adolf Hitler's politics-ridden machine can ever produce the kind of officer that the Reich, from Moltke to Kaiser Wilhelm, poured forth in dazzling profusion...
Conspiracy. Three days later the U.S. got a sudden reminder of its careless prewar past, when the Bund was only a joke. In the tiny fishing village of Boca del Rio, six miles south of Mexico's steamy Vera Cruz, Mexican police nabbed swarthy Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, onetime leader of the German-American Bund, where he succeeded Fritz Kuhn. Wilhelm Kunze had lived quietly in a small hotel, had bought a launch for an escape by sea. Hustled back to the U.S., he awaits trial on a charge of having conspired to send military information to Germany and Japan...
...Reich's most dazzling decorations. Mannerheim, reciprocating, buttered up the Nazis by calling them brothers in arms, hoped this year might "see the end of Bolshevist barbarism." Afterward he held what Berlin called "lengthy conversations" with Hitler and other Nazi surprise guests: Chief of Staff General Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and newly promoted Colonel General Eduard ("Bull") Dietl...
...with the north prong aimed at the Caucasus and perhaps a central prong from Greece and the Aegean Islands through Turkey. If so, the capture of Tobruk would be just an opening puncture for Rommel, as the capture of Kerch had been an opening puncture for Field Marshal Dieter Wilhelm von Mannstein. Or it might be merely an attack to test the British strength and prevent the diversion of British units to Syria...