Word: erhard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gerd von Rundstedt. They had now been dismissed or had "resigned" or were "gravely ill." The self-proclaimed Oberste Befehlshaber was left to carry on with the support of such latecomers to the military aristocracy as Chief of Operations General Alfred Jodl, Inspector General of the Air Force General Erhard Milch...
...that even that might be assaulted. In Berlin the Italian and Japanese Ambassadors attended a meeting to discuss "new and important tasks resulting from the common war against the Anglo-Saxon powers." Present to explain those tasks were Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and Field Marshal Erhard Milch of the Air Force. Last June, when he launched his attack on Russia, Adolf Hitler spoke of "the tying up of such powerful German forces in the east that the radical conclusion of the war in the west...could no longer be vouched for by the German High Command...
...Jersey College for Women, a branch of Rutgers University, has an enterprising journalism department. Three months ago it sent several students on a practice assignment: to investigate the disappearance of Dr. Erhard Fernholz, a research chemist at the Squibb Institute in New Brunswick, N. J., who went for a walk in Princeton last December and was never seen alive again.* The students interviewed a Squibb official. He snapped: "Why bother us when you have a disappearance in your own back yard...
...foreign exchange useful for war purchases, Britain gleefully added a contribution from German Air Marshal Erhard Milch last week: ?25 (in U. S. dollars) sent to his captured flier son-in-law, Hauptmann Joachim Heinrich Schlich-ting. Hauptmann Schlichting probably got his money's worth in British goods, but the Government kept the dollars. What made the British happier still was the chance to advertise that Air Marshal Milch had a son-in-law in a British prison and U. S. dollars in the bank...
...When Erhard Milch was made a Marshal last month, absent from the ceremonies were two of his closest colleagues, who were made Marshals also. These were Albert Kesselring and Hugo Sperrle. They were all busy in the newly occupied areas, getting ready their air fleets for the grand attack on Great Britain. Like Milch, Kesselring was an artillery officer in the last war, switching to the air in 1933. He helped plan the Poland offensive and directed Air Fleet No. 1 in it. A tall, well-built, happy-go-lucky Bavarian, he is probably the Luftwaffe's most popular...