Word: brauchitsch
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...have cost Germany 1,250,000 killed and many more wounded (up to Dec. i), 5,400 tanks, 6,000 to 8,000 planes -and Hitler, who had insisted on carrying it on into the winter, was feuding with his generals. Not only was Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch retired but, it was said, the purge was going a lot further...
Field Marshal von Brauchitsch admitted in a military consultation at the end of November, that Germany must realize in both the military and political fields that she could no longer win the war; it was possible, he said, that she might not entirely and necessarily lose the peace, if the Germans were helped by the political and diplomatic errors of the Anglo-Saxons...
Where Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was last week neither Eduard Benes nor any other Allied strategist knew for sure, but they pondered reports that many another German general was in disgrace...
...most of all the Allied strategists pondered the intriguing possibility offered by Field Marshal von Brauchitsch: what mistakes must the Allies make to save the German Reich from disaster...
Last fall Field Marshal von Brauchitsch had advised digging in for the Russian winter. Adolf Hitler had insisted on maintaining a double offensive against Moscow and the Caucasus. More recently, since the failure of his Russian designs, Hitler had proposed a turnabout invasion of Britain. This had been opposed by all his top commanders, all proud veterans of Germany's aristocratic military caste-Field Marshals von Brauchitsch, Fedor von Bock, Ritter Wilhelm von Leeb, Gerd von Rundstedt. They had now been dismissed or had "resigned" or were "gravely ill." The self-proclaimed Oberste Befehlshaber was left to carry...