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HITLER'S GENERALS
PUSHED the slip of paper which was
my pass through a narrow slit in the big, solid steel gate of Werl peniten- tiary. I could sense someone on the other side examining it carefully.
Then a key turned in the lock. The
I walked in. great door swung open.
Thus became the Grst newspaper reporter to bo allowed to visit Werl Gaol since it became the home and hend- quarters of the most important and influential group of Hitler's generals still alive in Germany today.
how
'These are the men who, after being found guilty of war erines, are serving long sentences in this British zone gaol.
1 found myself in a the gaol. typical German prison. It
Kesselring
-His favourite crack Is "Next time there is a war they will have to have lawyers in command.
Manstein
-was a little fractious at first, He did not want to wear convict blue and
The Wehrmacht protested.
never agree to this."
Mackensen
would
- most un-convict-like figure with a monocle flashing from his left eye.
--
of
Sydney Stanley's Latest!
YDNEY
• Listen, son...I'm just deluged with money - - . I'll be flooding France with dresses.
PARIS. a nice pair of shees you have fork out in the neigh- STANLEY. got to
bourhood of 24 or £3. Too his small frame neatly much. Now in England you enensed in a blue pin- con get a nice pair for thirty stripe suit set off by a blue boo. "Good. Hilk tie and suede shoes. "So 1 will bring British leaned back in his managing shoes over here and sell them director's chair, three floors by the million.
up in the Ron Marche de- partment store, and said:- "I have not the slightest need of capital.
This will cut the ground from under these
Czechoslovak Cominunists.
bave got "Don't
Worry, 1 every thing
up." all lined eirensed Stanley, "and I am co- "I am flighting off offers of ing to bring a whole lot of Eng- superfums cash."
His comment was in answer to my question about New York report that Mr Walter Kirchner, tin American chain store ner, has stated that he is not inter ested in helping to obtain con- trol of the Bon Marche.
lish people over to help run this?
fore.
"You simply can't beat the I know all there is to British.
1 have know about England. real faith in the country,
"I will bring the people flock- ing into this store with an ad- Kirchner was quoted as say- vertising campaign such as been seen-25,- it:g: "I
would rever before with Stanley stop trying to get me on the 000 shoppers a day, just like 1 Transatlantic Telephone. I did for that British store." won't take his call."
"Which store was that?"
Salt Stanley: "They un at- tempting to
mney.
no pack drill,”
deluge it with said Stanley enigmatically,
I have been uffered, without UK-
apperation, 20,000,00
lollars."
He gestured with
About his adver- Stanley has tising deelded to be modest. OIL one
Depend
thing, By R.M.
well-manicured MacColl
farers. "Of course,
Hitler's former Wehr- they all want macht.
Ifow so?
to
Inst
club on to Stanley's hand-waKon
name
the Stanley
will not
be
I
mentioned. The name far Loo Stanley is valuable to be mixed
with up
anything: The memories of Stanley won't let them. Stanley like advertising. But they will the historians are not infallible, has all the money he
needs, come running." So every now and then they find thank you very much.
"Who wants 20,000,000 it necessary to have some gen- eral--who is free and at large doliar::?"
"But let's tallr world to visit scornfully. in the outside
"Contract?" said Stanley, his them in goal to refresh their re-about something serious voice rising high. "A contract Whoever heard collection...
for Stanley? will let you in on my plan."
of such a thing?
over
Two main toples they discuss. The first is their constant worry
#nancial strults the their families. What was left of the personal fortunes these men has all Asented. Their dependants re- celve no pensions or allowances
บริ
"Have you a contract?" went 011 Stanley ventured.
'My reports'
TJE slung open a been con-
Mereover, they are precluded as the relatives of war criminals from following all but the most
menial pursuits.
the Russians.
of
papers and away again.
"I shall conduct my special hvestigation for six weeks (the so-called experts would lake six drawer of months) and then I shall prob-
whipped them a super-going-concern in under year. Then I shall probably step out to bigger Bings."
"Reports," he said. "Reports that pave the way for a sensa- tional experiment irt Anglo- French emnere. 1 intend to deluge the, French market with
what do you think?"
He paused and added: "The last thing the French expect— cheap women' dvezes, mars prouvert in Britain, I shail then around a guinea
"Including Customs dutics?” I asked.
a knock on the There was outer door of Stanley's office.
shouted Stanley. "Entrez," That is about the only word of the lingo I know," he told me. To speak French would be a handicap."
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the injustice and illegality of their conviction, the possibility of their release and rehabilitation. Each s solution for ex- seniority still held good in when the rest of the pri- his own pet
soners are shut up in their tricating himself. cells for the night. Kessel- General Schtairit says: "Why tell Tad German warders, railed Field-Marshal Kesselring ring and his men are allow. not let us go home on parole?" apiece.“
Manstein says: "We realise that tiers of cells looking out on ex-commander-in-chief of ed to meet in their recren- the allics feet bound by their
paper. a central well. It was the the German forces in tion room.
lore it up. agreement with
Stanley read it, "Listen, Tut the holding of hundreds of
son," said Stanley,
"SHI image of that Berlin and Southwest
the same re- Europe, WES
They listen to the radio. thousands of Germans in Russia, as far as Stanley is concerned and said:
sponse. I am not here." The at- where, in March 1933, 1 had
clearly the number on. He they talk, and they read, and civilians, permits them tariffs do not enter the picture, tendant bowed, and withdrew. been taken to see the Cum-
declare there agreements in
It is a part of my plan. Turilla "One last thing," said Stanley, is something Thaman started the talking on this And if there munist leaders
abeyance. That would make will be washed out by mutual as he does every special on the ratio, like a possible to let us out."
arreement, so the dresses enter as he rue to see me out, "I with and Torgler, and the paci occasion fists Muchsamm
when the and Ossiet evening
group particularly attractive con-
All of them profess that un-ing France from Britain will be ensure that 51 percent. of the nuty free. The tune will go capital is British or American. i But don't! meets.
cert (or the Savold-Wood- less war crimes procedure is
for the French goode I shall sell That is important.
forget I leady have far too cock fight). why then the revised radically and codifled by
in England.
I do wish they. much money." international agreement colonel gives them perniis- will be an end to: (1) OBE
"British goods are best," he would stop pestering me."
Stanley says he is working 19 sibility (1 command;
from that. But the
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"If I were
In the drink far is waitint outside the Man- chester at 7.30
and Stanley A comprehensive business, which I am not, would usually is not back until 10 st scheme including There is a case
I try lo sell Scotch whisky? night.
ideas, layout and finished No Stanley would start selling for review'
Welsh whisky."
design is available advertisers in the
ski.
there
mistake
This time 1 had no oily Field-Marshal yon Man- Gestapo man to escort me. stein was the number two. Instead, I was led by the He edged his chair close to sion to stay up until it is DIENCE to orders and respon- went on. "You can't get away
(2) and kindly British mine and when Kesselring over, bluff governor, Colonel Vickers,
paused he took up the tale. Are any of them frac- and his Yorkshire helper. Major Clapham.
Colonel General Mackensen.
von tious? Well, Manstein when
mont un he first arrived was inclined Nor were the generals I convict-like monocle flashing to be a little difficult. met cooped up in cells. ↑ from his left eye, chipped did not want to put on his
found them sitting in
large and comfortable
creation room.
a in frequently.
re-
As we entered the room
the generals stood up and bowed to the colonel. A
He
convict blue. "The Wehr-
Colonel may
them stay up
macht," let
second later I was being in--BUT Falkenhorst, although that
for an Immediate review of All all war crimno sentences,
released prisoners should be
he said, "would TERE 15, I believe, a case never agree to this!"
At first, too, he sulkily who have been santcneed not for or committed refused the patch of garden actions Initiated
was offered to him, by themselves, but because they falled to prevent the execution he too was a colonel- refused to join the group of illegal orders. general, and had been the of generals who under
The thinking behind much of i commander supreme
aro Kesselring's direction
the war crimes procedure has when Norway, spoke only
writing a history of their been so muddied and contradic- spoken to.
campaigns for the US. war tory that I agree with Kessel- crack: "Next ring's favourite What did the generals department. (A carbon me there is a war they won't have to say to me? Alas,
be able to have soldiers in com- "Kesselring."
copy goes to Whitehall.) the British authorities.
mand. They will have to have colonel with a wave of the when giving
the old
troduced to some of the most famous German names of the war-white-haired. grey looking, elderly men, each dressed in convict unl- form of spotless blue drill.
unid the
hand to a smiling and for the gaol, made the con-
mo the pass Now Manstein is
forceful-looking little man dition that I should
directly quote
at the top of the room.
"Manstein," he poluted. generals said. "Mackenson, . Schmidt,
Gallenkamp.
von
Then others
what the
enthusiastic too
lawyers."
appreciate that
gentlemen in Werl Gaol re-
creation room are representa- tives of n system which has twice in my lifetime plunged
Each has his own garden BUT, today Manstein has the world into war.
Falkenhorst, Maelzer, Wolff. plot where he is allowed to grow what he likes. They grow vegetables--and vege- tables which, like lettuce.
Simon. less well known.
Kesselring starts. they can ent without cook-
the talking
ing.
For these generals are They ATC canny fellows.
his garden and he is
But the way to restore peace fighting the war over again to the world is to restore respect on paper as enthusiastically for law and justice. as anyone.
Not that I am surprised FIELD - MARSHAL LORD ALEXANDER, in his des that Manstein has joined
For it is patches-fust published on the the historians.
the Italian cam- last year of this history-writing that
of KESSELRING: palyn, says I BOWED to each one and afraid that their fellow con- gives the generals in Werl "Every time we attacked Kes- we took him each ons bowed to me. viet cooks might steal their chance to keep in touch arrling in Italy
with their soldier colleagues owed very great skill in ex- completely by surprise, but he Then we sat down in plea- prized produce.
outside. They are, at the fricating himself from the des chairs. Rant, comfortable
The most valued privilege receiving end of the secret perate situations into which his
No military ranks had been
mentioned. But It was of all
is that at half grapevine which now once fautry intelligence had led him." clear at once that military past five in the evening, more links the staff officers
-(London Express Buroics)
All
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In the corridor outside a man, dressed in secly clothes, was waiting with letter in his up hand. Stanley's manner chang
ed. "What do you want?" he asked, "I wish to see Mr Stan- "I am Mr would be the same thing ley," said the man. with textiles for Stanley. Stanley, "Mr Stanley is a vCTY Tres. "They expect you to come along busy man. Comprenez? with cloth for men's suits or tres busy." men's shirts. But, oh, what a
The man muttered a further surprise when Stanley storms the French market with British remark, but Stanley pointed to women's dresses.
the lift. "I am only the secre- "And I will do the same with tary," he insisted, "come back shoes. Over here if you want some other time when Mr Stan-
ley is not so busy."
Suzette
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I pointed out to Stanley the oil painting hanging in the cor- ridor. It was entitled "British Hifts delivered to Paris during the 1871 nlegé."
"Ah, ah," said Stanley. pirouetted In front of a bronze the statue of a four playing tambourine. "And now
Не
It is
Stanley who bears British gifta to the elly of Paris: How history
repeats itself!"
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