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...Germans not invade Britain? Possibly the German General Staff, which had planned so thoroughly for Europe's conquest, had overlooked the little matter of the actual invasion of Britain. Last week Rundstedt, comparing the German landing barges to those used by the Allies in Normandy, referred to the German craft as "apple barges." He added that as far as he knew, the German High Command's reason for abandoning the invasion of Britain was fear of the British fleet...
...heart of the Hitlerites' realm-the scarred, sprawling fourth city of the world, the Nazis' holy ground. Russian shells screamed over and around Hitler's Kanzlei on Wilhelmstrasse and exploded close to Hermann Göringstrasse and into Potsdamer Platz. There, in the Kriegsministerium, the conquest of Russia had once been mapped by confident Wehrmacht commanders...
...TIME, April 2): "Empty bellies sharpen memories." Do you suppose going hungry can sharpen their memories so they won't choose leaders in another 20 years who offer them conquest and riches...
...turn on the Nazi torture rack. The Germans had willed that the city of 2,000,000 Austrians should die as Budapest had died - slowly, to gain a little more time for Naziism. But this week it seemed that the Red Army would foil that murder by swift conquest. Vienna might escape death, though it would be gravely wounded...
...conquest of castles became commonplace. In her 300-room castle at Nordkirchen, Princess Valerie-Marie of Schleswig-Holstein, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, ran her fingers through marcelled hair at the sight of bearded G.I.s tracking mud on her carpets. When she was confined to 14 gilded chambers, she wrung her hands and protested: "It's absurd, this tiny wing...