Word: brauchitsch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commander in Chief Walther von Brauchitsch toured the Western Front, admonishing his men as he went: "Always look ahead, always go ahead without regard for what is happening to left or right of you." He inspected newly arrived troops near Grenzach, just across the border from Switzerland. Their mustering had been sufficiently alarming to the Swiss General Staff to make the latter call up two new classes (36-and 37-year-olds). At week's end Switzerland had 450,000 men under arms-as many as in November, when the Swiss had their first big here's-where...
...Here the German Government was believed to have notified the Swedish Government that the Reich could never permit British and French troops in Northern Europe. Meanwhile, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, Chief of all Nazi Armies, pointedly visited Danzig and Gotenhafen, on the southern Baltic, to inspect "military reconstruction work." No passage, said the Swedish Foreign Office...
...generals when they refused to follow him: "Then I will continue the war alone." This savored of an ultimatum from the Nazi Party to those German generals who are known to have obstructed Adolf Hitler's plans for a westward Blitzkrieg last autumn. Promptly. Col. General Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander in Chief of the Armies, affirmed the military's allegiance in an article for the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party organ. Wrote he: "Whoever is National Socialist follows Frederician soldierdom...
Some observers read this as a fresh prediction of offensive action soon by the German Army. Others, reading further, construed the Brauchitsch piece as warning of a long war, for he continued...