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Surprise. General Leonid Govorov's blow last week caught the Finns and their German allies by surprise. In next-door Sweden, observers predicted Finland's collapse within three months, voiced doubt that Nazi General Eduard Dietl would rush his nine divisions from the north to help the hard-pressed Finns...
This week the Russians made sure of Dietl's preoccupation by probing his defenses far above the Arctic Circle. Thirty miles from the Red lines lay the border of Norway and beyond, the rich nickel mines that are an essential part of the German war economy. Dietl had better hold fast at Norway's back door. The Finnish troops on the Karelian Isthmus were likely to have to shift for themselves...
...Under Generals von Falkenhorst, Daluege and Dietl, there are twelve Nazi divisions in Norway, five in Denmark, five to seven in Finland. Many of the troops in Norway are over age, wounded in other campaigns...
...other disasters of World War II. With these possibilities only too imminent, it was easy, now, to believe that the cold, harsh face of Bock could turn into the face of victory for Hitler and the Germans. That face was everywhere in Russia. It was the face of Dietl on the Finnish front, where the Russians fought to keep their access to the North Atlantic. It was the face of Leeb on the northern front, where the Russians were reduced to sending training planes with bombs against the German ring around Leningrad. It was the face of List...
...Prussian and Junker aristocrats stood aloof, the middle-class opportunists made friends at Brown House, successfully ignored the atrocities there and enjoyed Nazi favor long before the Prussian-ruled Reichswehr capitulated. Now they rate highly with Hitler: Jodl, of the Führer's personal staff; Dietl, who commands the extreme northern front in Russia; List, who probably now commands the central front...