Word: brauchitsch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke up. They claimed that General von Kleist had thrown away nine divisions: the 13th, 14th and 16th Panzer divisions; the 60th motorized; the Viking and Adolf Hitler Leibstandarte SS divisions; the 76th, 94th and 97th Infantry divisions. It was said that Commander in Chief Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had gone to the southern front to help put a stop to the rout. But the figure on casualties claimed to have been suffered by all these divisions was 23,000, the normal strength of only one and a half infantry divisions. This would have made casualties through the nine...
Hitler was willing to talk to Mussolini a long time alone in a tent. Escorted by armored cars and mobile anti-aircraft guns, they motored over vast stretches of the battle line, visited the intense German Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, encountered wrecked villages, Russian war debris, black mud where soldiers had to push their car. One day they flew down to the Ukraine to see Italian troops attacking Russia under the command of German Field Marshal von Rundstedt. For a while they shared the soldiers' soup and black bread, allowed themselves to be photographed by respectful infantrymen. Flying...
...siding under the shadow of a Balkan mountain on whose crest anti-aircraft units kept constant vigil, was set as usual for Adolf Hitler's morning conference with his advisers. Assembled in the car were all the biggest of the bigs: Göoring, Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Brauchitsch, Raeder, Himmler, Hess (see cut). They were gathered together to congratulate Adolf Hitler on his 52nd birthday...
...TIME, Jan. 6, you show a picture of "Germany's Army, Air Force, Navy" [see cut]. I notice one very unmilitary action in connection with this picture. That is the fact that . . . Field Marshal von Brauchitsch is out of step with the other two. Maybe this is symbolical of what is happening in Germany...
...Brauchitsch should be in step, as Raeder is, with Göring, the ranking officer...