RUSSIANS CROSS LAST RIVER BEFORE CRACOW; NAZIS FLEE BELGIAN BULGE, LOSE 232 PLANES (1/15/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 1/15/45 | Gene Currivan, Clifton Daniel, Harold Denny, Sydney Gruson, Frank L. Kluckhohn, George E. Jones

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[colorado tanker]

It should be noted that Ilsa Koch and her foul husband were not arrested because of their crimes and heinous treatment of prisoners. They were arrested for embezzlement and killing prisoners to keep them from testifying about the couple's stealing.

Ilsa was indeed promiscuous, more with German officers than inmates. I suppose that's why they made a softcore movie inspired by her. One of the more interesting footnotes to her story is that she became pregnant while in solitary confinement in American custody, from which one could infer the father was an interrogator or jailor.

[colorado tanker]

I read somewhere that by this time Ribbentrop was urging Hitler to make peace with someone because he could see where this was headed, but Hitler, of course, would have none of it.

[henkster]

Did she have any tatoos?

[henkster]

Some of the more sane people in Germany would urge Hitler to make peace. In one sense Hitler was more rational than they were. He knew this war was personal; the allies were bent on the destruction of Nazi Germany and German militarism. There were going to be war crimes trials, and he was going to be the star defendant. Hitler knew he was going to be displayed in a cage like a monster (which he was).

There wasn’t going to be a negotiated peace.

[colorado tanker]

LOL! I wouldn’t know.

[colorado tanker]

There wasn’t going to be a negotiated peace.

No, there wasn't. Even if Hitler had realized his pipe dream of driving all the way to Antwerp, Roosevelt and Churchill wouldn't have made a separate peace. It is personal now. Plus, Churchill would never have abandoned all of Germany to Stalin.