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...SECRET SURRENDER, by Allen Dulles. The organized surrender of 1,000,000 German and Italian troops a week before V-E day is ably recounted by former CIA Chief Dulles, who engineered the whole thing...
...SECRET SURRENDER, by Allen Dulles. The organized surrender of 1,000,000 German and Italian troops a week before V-E day is ably recounted by former CIA Chief Dulles, who was its chief engineer and certainly knows a good spy story...
...rzburg, Neckermann worked in Berlin during the Nazi era, acquired for a bargain price a textile mail-order house belonging to a Jew who was forced to sell and flee. Neckermann joined the Nazi Party, did well selling uniforms to Hitler's armies during World War II. After V-E day, the Allies confiscated Neckermann's property and put him in jail for a year. He kept up his textile contacts and in 1950 set up business in a rented barracks at a refugee camp, where labor was especially cheap. He put out his first slim catalogue...
...convention's 577 delegates. West Germans, who live in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, are more acutely conscious of Russia's armed presence beyond their borders than most Westerners. And their politicians are apt to blame the Soviet Union for the fact that, 20 years after V-E day, Germany remains divided...
...French artfully try to woo Bonn away from the American alliance-but the Germans still feel unloved. "Joyous bonfires burn in the night sky all around Germany as her former enemies celebrate their victory of 20 years ago," noted Theologian Helmut Thielicke during last month's V-E day commemorations. "But we are still pushed away from the light of the bonfires and deep into the disgrace of the past...