Word: brauchitsch
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...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...
...stuck to the same work ever since. As Chief of the German General Staff in 1939 he laid the plans of the Polish campaign, capped them the following spring with the strategy devised for the Western Front. Since his Commander in Chief, Field Marshal Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch, was reputedly dubious about the invasion of Britain, General Haider may organize it himself. The invasion's leadership might well be another behind-the-scenes...
...Year Churchill does not stand alone. Neither does Runner-up Hitler. Beside and behind Hitler stand the German armed forces, the superbly destructive machine fashioned by Goring, Brauchitsch, Raeder and hundreds of others. Beside and behind Churchill stands a very small man multiplied a millionfold. He is just an Englishman. He was born in the country, or in one of the big cities of the Midlands, or in a grey house in a London suburb. The hands that reared him were hard. His food was tepid or cold: butter and bread, jam and strong black tea, mutton and what...