Word: choltitz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even Hitler knew he would need an exceptionally loyal man to carry out his orders. He was sure he had found that man in General Dietrich von Choltitz. The stubby, impassive Prussian had led the blitzkrieg on Rotterdam, and later, on the Eastern front, had earned the reputation of a "smasher of cities," starting with Sevastopol which he had leveled for Hitler on Hitler's orders. He was the scion of a Prussian family that in three generations as officers had never disobeyed an order. On Aug. 7, 1944, Hitler summoned Von Choltitz, put him in command...
Gift to Humanity. Is Paris Burning? is the extraordinary story of what happened in the next 19 days before Paris was taken by the Allies. The authors, an American and a French journalist, spent three years in research and in interviewing the participants, both major (notably Von Choltitz himself) and minor, a score of whose private stories are recounted in detail. But above all, it is the absorbing story of Von Choltitz' lonely drama of decision...