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...German Third Reich: Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring in the blue uniform of the Air Force, his Field Marshal's baton in his right hand; Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German Armed Forces, his cap cocked jauntily on one side; Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch in field grey; Grand Admiral of the Fleet Erich Raeder in a blue naval uniform and upturned stiff collar, also carrying a baton; Deputy Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess in a grey Party uniform; Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the grey uniform of the Foreign Office. As the group reached...
...June 5 the Battle of France began, the Germans taking off southward from the Somme-Aisne line. Against all the materiel and manpower Weygand could mass, General Walther von Brauchitsch hurled 40, then 60, then 120, finally 150 divisions. By June 10 they were within 35 miles of Paris, with pincers curving down from east and west. Last week on June 14, the pincers met at Paris and it was surrendered (see p. 21). The French Armies broke southward, through and around the city. Now the German drives swerved toward the sea and toward the rear of the Maginot Line...
Strategy. Day by day at German Army Headquarters somewhere in the Rhineland last week, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and their commanding generals-von Brauchitsch, Keitel, Milch, Guderian-contemplated their operations map of Western Europe with profound satisfaction. Everything was working according to plan. Attack has always appealed to the German mind. And now they had such an attack! Their first push had already driven straight across Holland to Rotterdam. Before the Allied Armies rushing northward from the French border had time to reach prepared Belgian positions along the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liége, a swift...
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...