The Washington Post, August 19th, 1987
"HITLER, for the first time since he came to power, did not speak or make a public appearance," writes the journalist William Shirer in an entry in his "Berlin Diary" for May Day 1940. "His deputy, Rudolf Hess, spoke in his place-from the Krupp munition works at Essen. He kept referring to Mr. Hambro as `that Jew, Mr. Hamburger.'" That was the atmosphere in the Germany Mr. Hess and his colleagues had created, and thatwas the way they used to talk about peoplewho got in their way. (Mr. Hambro was a Norwegian political leader who opposed the Nazi takeover of his country.) Earlier in his career, ...
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