Word: fedorer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later a military spokesman in Berlin announced that the German Army does not expect to capture Moscow this year. Either Germany was gathering strength for an offensive somewhere else, or the spectre of the wholesale amputation of frozen arms & legs was too much even for hard-bitten Marshal Fedor von Bock...
...Fedor von Bock's cosmos, the Fatherland remained constantly deathworthy; the Emperor was interchangeable with, successively, Weimar Republicanism, Hindenburg, the Führer. He was completely unpolitical: he never plotted, was never purged...
...Fedor von Bock worked his way up, he won more & more respect-both for his fanaticism and for his thoroughness. Soon his fanaticism spread in the Army, until every unit had a handful of "Bock's own dying heroes...
Holy Fire of Küstrin. Fedor von Bock looks like a man dying of some mysterious internal combustion. He is gaunt, and his eyes have the baleful stare of windows in a bombed-out house. He is a competent general-in Russia he has been Germany's best-and besides, he believes, with aggressive religiousness, in dying if necessary for the soil and honor of Prussia...
...Fedor was son of a major general, grandson of a general. He was born 61 years ago in ancient Küstrin, where Frederick the Great was imprisoned by his father so that he would learn "the meaning of Prussianism." At cadet schools young Fedor showed by his unbreakable spirit that he already understood something of that meaning. By 1910 he had talked his way into the right to wear red stripes down his trouser legs-the badge of a general staffer. He had begun making speeches with the refrain: "Our profession should always be crowned by a heroic death...