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A Luftwaffe captain who had been decorated by Adolf Hitler blabbed to a Swiss woman in Berlin. Last week, in a neutral capital, she blabbed to correspondents. The captain's view of Hitler and his headquarters:

On the appointed morning a blue Mercédès-Benz drove him to an airport hidden in a forest. Landing at a second airfield, he was driven to a third, from which a second airplane twisted him over to a fourth.

Near this field was his destination: 20 small, identical buildings surrounded by a high, barbed-wire fence and camouflaged with trees and bushes planted on their roofs. The captain was...

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