Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wedged between two gottverdammte Englander in the back seat, General Kreipe sat in military silence as the car rushed 30 miles across Crete, from the north to the south shore: The car stopped; the General and his chauffeur were hustled aboard a waiting British ship...
...German Authorities in Crete...
Easing his paunch a trifle. Major General Kreipe came briskly out of his office. He had had a long day at his desk. It was precisely 9:30 p.m. In this gottverdammte Crete-which was not, after all, so gottverdammt after Russia-it was stilt annoying that there should be so much paper work to do; and it was annoying that there was no getting away from the blackout...
...command, too, is completely under Rundstedt's direction. The Germans unquestionably plan to use their own tough, mobile airborne troops to meet Allied airborne thrusts, and this phase of the campaign will be commanded by Lieut. General Kurt Student, professionally respected paratroop leader who planned and executed the Crete invasion...
Captain Lewis Anselm Ritchie, R.N., was really nervous last week. The small (5 ft. 4 in.), one-eyed, tidy 58-year-oldster had caught hell at Narvik, Dunkirk, Crete, had been torpedoed twice. But his new assignment was, in a way, worse. He was to be press secretary to Britain's royal family. And his first job was to humanize Princess Elizabeth in the eyes of the Empire (and incidentally...