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* Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont became a senior SS officer and served as High Commissioner of Police in German-occupied France. He served three years in prison after the war. Himmler was godfather to his son.
* [[Ass in Ambassador|Franz von Papen]] was an opportunistic supporter of the Nazis. He was a widely disliked figure and German political exiles compared him to Judas or even to [[Satan]]. Furthermore he had the dangerous combination of a delight in intrigue with an overestimation of his strategic talent. When an attempt was made on his life in Ankara the Turkish investigators were presented with a problem well known from detective novels: [[Everyone Is a Suspect| anyone might have wanted to kill him.]]
** He was notably an outspoken opponent of the Nazis (though [[With Friends Like These...|counterproductive]] to say the least) prior to the Night of the Long Knives when various associates of his including his personal adviser were [https://web.archive.org/web/20120529204804/http://books.google.com/books?id=xvZmPB8W1WwC&pg=PA171&dq=von+papen&hl=en&ei=06mNTYCuFZSssAPY05WOCQ&sa=X were killed], and he personally only [http://books.google.com/books?id=zjkcgDyJPmsC&pg=PA112&dq=narrowly+escaped&hl=en "narrowly escaped"] Hitler's purge by the SS.
*** In the previous war, Papen had been the head of Imperial Germany's intelligence effort in the US, where his recommendation that German submarines should start sinking American merchant ships [[Take That|did so much to keep America neutral and win the war for the Kaiser.]] He was appointed Hitler's deputy by [[General Failure|President Hindenburg]], who figured that a man with [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|Papen's record of success]] would be just the fellow to keep this damned Bohemian corporal in line.
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