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...Bavarian General Staff sent a young officer, Major Karl Haushofer, to study the workings of the Japanese Army. Traveling slowly via Suez and Singapore, young Haushofer hailed the flag of the Rising Sun with "immense relief." His long journey from the Fatherland had been humiliating: at many stages of the ship's passage-Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Aden, India, Singapore-he had seen a rocky bastion rise from the water flying the British Union Jack. A trained geographer, young Haushofer well knew of Britain's imperial lifeline. But on his trip this line took on a new and shocking...
...months ago, with cold disapproval, Gustav Siegfried Eins reported that Hitler had fired the Bavarian chief of the Wehrmacht's General Staff, Colonel General Franz Haider, who largely planned the invasions of Poland, France, the Balkans and Russia. Stockholm correspondents reported that Hitler had, summoned Haider before the assembled staff and barked: "I am under the impression that your achievements do not keep up with my demands and you are unable to follow my intentions. I thank you for your work hitherto...
Destiny's agent was a Bavarian officer named Franz Hipper: an opportunistic Raeder recognized the agent. For his superior's approval he worked with selfless care, charted courses down to a minnow's fin, was everything that a junior officer should be-except in his pint size. Franz Hipper often boomed to his bantam favorite: "When I become an admiral, I'll make you my chief of staff...
...wage (in 1936) was $6.29; and one in every five was dependent on the Winter Relief Fund, which is made up of workers' "voluntary" contributions. Real achievements: Strength-Through-Joy cruises by which a workman could visit Madeira for $25 round trip, or spend a week in the Bavarian Alps for $11; vast expansion of theater, opera, concerts, adult education...
When 20-year-old Adam, immigrant Bavarian peddler, opened his "Palace of Trade" in Vincennes in 1842, his policies looked mighty suspicious to the 1,700 townspeople: no haggling, one price to all. But it worked. His seven sons, banding together as the Gimbel Brothers, mushroomed the business into a chain of nine great stores, whose sales in 1941 were probably about $115,000,000, profits (before taxes...