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...train. Next morning, under sealed orders, the train crossed the demarkation line at Moulins. Eighty miles southeast of Paris it was shunted off on a branch line near the town of St.-Florentin, where another special train waited. In that train, his Falstaffian sides swaddled in uniform, sat Hermann Wilhelm Göing. Marshal Pétain had been told to wear civilian clothes...
...Organization of Germans Living Abroad (the AO; under Ernst Wilhelm Bohle...
They laid his body in state in the Air Ministry's great hall and flanked it with an honor guard. Adolf Hitler renamed Luftwaffe Squadron 3 the Udet Squadron and ordered a state funeral. Reich Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring delivered the eulogy, then waddled after the flag-draped gun carriage on the mile-long march through silent, crowded streets to the cemetery. They buried him near the grave of Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
...Ernst Wilhelm Bohle at 31 undertook to execute Hess's idea that everyone can and must spy. By 1937 he had the services of 70,000 to 100,000 sailors on German ships and of some 3,000.000 German "housemaids, grocery clerks, beauty-parlor operators, nurses, chauffeurs, opera singers, bookkeepers," who lived abroad. Their work: In weekly reports, the answering of "hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands" of questions: questions not only military and economic, but intimately worming forth the subtlest anthropological details of civilian psychology, habit, morale. This information was screened for its gold-dust in the consulates...
...mission was reported preparing to visit Iraq to study a rail route for aid-to-Russia. This route, the eastern end of Kaiser Wilhelm's old Berlin-to-Bagdad dream, would require 100 miles of track, 4,500 freight cars, 200 locomotives, push U.S. railroads' equipment orders still farther back in the priorities queue...