Word: arnim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy lost many valuable officers. The Germans said last week that Field Marshal Rommel, who trained and commanded the Afrika Korps, left Africa last March for medical treatment, is still in Germany. Latest count last week of captured generals was 27, including Colonel General Jürgen von Arnim, who was flown to Britain (see cut), and Italy's Marshal Giovanni Messe...
...Generals. The outside world already knew plenty about Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Of Colonel General Jürgen von Arnim, much less was known...
...Arnim is unlike most of the Wehr-macht's professional military men in that he comes of a noble and wealthy landed family. The family has boasted admirals, generals, statesmen (one, who had been ambassador to France in Bismarck's time, was accused of embezzling state papers and fled Germany), poets (one was the romanticist Ludwig Achim von Arnim, author of Des Knaben Wunderhorn...
Marshal Rommel reportedly asked for Jürgen von Arnim as coequal commander in Tunisia. The two had worked together on tank tactics through the years. In the early days of the reconstituted Wehrmacht, Arnim commanded the First Panzer Regiment. Later he was shifted back to infantry, which he commanded in Poland. He helped develop the cooperation of tanks and infantry within armored di visions, and in hilly Tunisian terrain where the uses of tanks are limited, his expertness in such liaison will be valuable...
...side, then the other, raided and harassed its enemy during the rainy winter months. In February and March, Arnim launched heavy counter-attacks which drove the British (and the Americans farther south) back so that Rommel could crawl into the hills uncrushed. Finally, as the Eighth went to work on the Mareth Line, the First moved forward, this time methodically and to stay. In its present offensives it seems to be a seasoned fighting force which can do its jobs...