Word: diettmar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gates. Germany's visible reaction to this situation was one of unconcealed gloom and alarm. Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar, ace German military commentator, admitted in a somber radio analysis for his people that the enemy was "at the gates" of the Fatherland, that Germany was facing vast attacks on three fronts by Allied forces superior in men and materials. Other spokesmen seemed almost to vie with each other in gloom...
...thousands of suspects, created special antiguerilla forces (in one case 60.000 strong), offered big rewards (for the head of Guerrilla Chief Mikhail Romashkin: 15,000 rubles, a house, 32 acres of land, two cows, a horse). But the hour came when the Wehrmacht's mouthpiece, Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar, had to make an admission: "The struggle with the partisans has become a complex problem, which cannot be solved by small means...
Said one of the Wehrmacht's favorite apologists, Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar: "We started this war with different conceptions from those we hold now. Many illusions were shattered. . . . We realize that such an adversary cannot be knocked out with one blow." Inasmuch as Adolf Hitler conceived the invasion of Russia, this remark constituted indirect criticism of the intuitive Führer...
...There is need for more German troops in Russia." The voice, rasping in German loudspeakers last week, was the voice of Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar, engineer officer and propagandist for the German High Command...
Said General Diettmar...
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