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When the Germans launched their second supposedly final attack on Moscow a fortnight ago Berlin military spokesmen called it a "do-or-die" drive. It was planned and commanded by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, who because he loves to lecture his men on the glory of dying for the Fatherland, is called der Sterber (the Dier). By this week many a German had died before Moscow, and the Dier was still doing. But the city still stood...
...Fedor von Bock may eventually succeed in taking Moscow. But this week it appeared that he would have to make at least one more try before he even surrounded the city. Subduing it would be still another matter...
...winter of 1812 Napoleon retreated from Moscow, but in the winter of 1941 Fedor von Bock expects to take the city. This is partly because Fedor von Bock is driven by a furious determination shared by every German officer all the way up to Adolf Hitler; it is partly because der Sterber is disdainful of hard ships...
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...