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Yellow and the Traitors

Years later, awaiting the end in his cell at Nuremberg, Hermann
Göring would philosophize about the little accidents of fate that
affect human lives. In  he had been waiting at a bus stop, en
route to his initiation as a Freemason. A toothsome blonde
crossed his path, and he stalked off after her instead. As a Free-
mason he would have been disqualified from joining Hitler’s
Nazi party. But for that blonde, he reflected, he might not be
languishing in that prison cell in .
So it was with that plane’s crash-landing in Belgium in
January . It nearly ended his career: that he stayed in office,
and therefore had to pay the penalties that duly accrued, was
probably a chance by-product of a little known service that he
was able to perform in revealing an ongoing treason being per-
petrated at the highest levels of the Nazi high command. On
January , Göring secretly visited Hitler with the Forschung-
samt dossier containing intercepted Italian and Belgian tele-