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...officers had been as ready to take orders from Adolf Hitler's Government as from any other. But they did demand that the orders make military, if not political, sense. The suppressed bitterness of many a disgruntled German soldier was summed up last week by 51-year-old Bavarian Lieut. General Edmund Hofmeister, sometime commander of the 41st Tank Corps. Captured by the Russians last fortnight, Hofmeister spoke...
...south Bavarian concentration camp the Gestapo had shot a thousand German officers...
...canteen, which resembled any Army Post Exchange, with shelves of U.S. cigarets, candy, peanuts, toilet articles, hung an oil painting of a sentimental reunion in the Bavarian Alps, labeled in German, "The Homecoming...
...these beer halls, Himmler first heard Hitler. At once, he joined the party of the flaccid man with the frenetic shriek and the square-cut mustache. He carried the standard in the abortive Nazi beer-cellar Putsch of 1923. Himmler was not arrested; the Bavarian police of the Weimar Republic told him to run along and find nicer playmates...
Died. John Flammang Schrank, 67, Bavarian-born ex-barkeep who shot and wounded Theodore" Roosevelt in Milwaukee in 1912; of bronchial pneumonia; in the Waupun, Wis. hospital where he spent 29 of his 31 mailless, visitorless years in state custody, after being judged a paranoiac. Schrank regarded Teddy's 1912 Bull Moosing as a bid for a third term, decided to shoot him. Schrank's single shot was parried by manuscripts and a spectacle case in T.R.'s pockets. Despite his wound, Teddy made a speech that night, a fortnight later again felt perfectly bully...