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...Incidental discovery: Dittmar's voice was so poor that he used a "double" on the Berlin radio, practically never read his own works...
...Albert Kesselring, at last defeated and taken in Austria, notably broke the pattern insofar as he professed complete loyalty to Adolf Hitler, blamed defeat on both military and political bunglers. But, smiling and spruce and personally unbowed, he was a living embodiment of Wehrmacht "honor." ¶I General Kurt Dittmar, theGerman ground forces' prize analyst, was asked by his U.S. and British captors to write a speech for broadcasting to the defeated Germans. He did, but it was not used: he had composed a masterful exoneration of the Wehrmacht...
...with a red cross on it, five men last week took a rowboat across the Elbe River to U.S. positions at Magdeburg. Out onto the shore stepped a jug-eared, thin-faced man in a carefully tailored Wehrmacht officer's uniform. He identified himself as Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, "Mouthpiece of the Wehrmacht"-the highest ranking, most objective and (outside Germany) most seriously regarded war commentator on the German radio...
...Dittmar said he wanted to arrange transfer of German wounded and civilians to the U.S. side. Major General Leland S. Hobbs, commanding the U.S. 30th Division, suggested that he make his humanitarianism official by persuading the Wehrmacht commander on the other bank to surrender. Dittmar was willing to try-but not to recross the river. He sent a note across. When no answer was forthcoming, he surrendered himself and his party, which included his 16-year...
This time, as Dittmar and every other intelligent German well knew, the status quo ante was utterly beyond recall. This time, Berlin would be lost for a good deal longer than two days. Frederick's very bones, enshrined at Potsdam, were in danger of falling into Russian hands. The Nazis removed them from the Potsdam vault to a secret place in the Thuringian Forest...