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...Nazis strode to power in Europe. In February 1938 Hitler purged his generals' ranks, took over supreme command of the fighting forces, welded diplomacy and military might to Nazi policy. Six weeks later Austria was annexed. The next summer Nazi fury was unleashed in Czecho-Slovakia; in September Munich gave away the Sudetenland. Back to London went Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waving a scrap of paper, croaking "peace in our time...
...Allemande depuis I'Armistice) by Jacques Benoist-Méchin on the German Army revealed the conditions under which Germany had been living since the previous war, her despair, her sufferings, her will to revenge, her work, her success. . . . In France we ignored all that. . . . Munich was the basest of capitulations...
Haushofer and Hitler. World War I raised young Haushofer to the rank of major general. He had a young aide-decamp named Rudolf Hess, who in the post war years attended his lectures on geography at the University of Munich. When the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch failed (1923), Haushofer hid Hess in his mountain home. When Hess was imprisoned with Hitler, Haushofer visited them there...
...living space -which Hitler incorporated into Mein Kampf. For General Haushofer had by then a whole philosophy of German expansion for which, perhaps, he hoped Hitler might be a useful propagandist. Instead, the corporal adopted the general and, when the Nazi regime was established, Geopolitician Haushofer was installed in Munich as director of a great brain trust known as the Geopolitical Institute...
...Munich's Fifth. The R.A.F.'s higher-load Lancasters and Stirlings bored deeper into Nazi Europe. On a bright night they gave Munich's railway shops, grenade factories and submarine-engine plants the city's fifth R.A.F. raid. Through broken clouds the crews saw great fires. Aloft they met Nazi night fighters "in some strength" but got surprisingly little ack-ack. Lost: twelve British planes...