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...where they ran into some of the nastiest opposition yet-fanatical Nazi boys, girls and old men. They smashed on into the Nazi shrine of Nurnberg, crossed the Danube, and with the 42nd liberated the prisoners of Dachau. A week before V-E day, the weary 45th marched into Munich...
Plans for the evacuation were made before Munich, and they were being carried out as Chamberlain made his declaration of war speech. In a single week 2,000 pictures were removed in 64 special railway container vans-first to country houses and museums; then, after widespread raids began, to the Welsh caves. The caves were air-conditioned, equipped with a single-track narrow railway, and wired with a burglar alarm system...
Wilhelm Frick, a roistering Munich policeman who had risen to become "protector" of Bohemia and Moravia, was a prisoner. It was Frick who, as premier of Thuringia, had conferred German citizenship on Austrian-born Adolf Hitler...
...France's ex-Premiers Léon Blum, Socialist leader of the 1936 Popular Front. Edouard Daladier, the only surviving man of Munich, and Paul Reynaud, the last unhappy Premier who yielded France to Marshal Pétain...
...false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...