Word: fredborg
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BEHIND THE STEEL WALL-Arvid Fredborg-Viking...
...Arvid Fredborg is a young Swedish journalist who represented Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet in Berlin from February 1941, to the end of May 1943. Behind the Steel Wall was written from private notes just after the author had quit the Third Reich following a series of discreet warnings from his friends. His book, in easy, gossipy pages, presents the most up-to-date picture of Germany from within. It is the picture of a war machine that is being run without provision for maintenance. It is coughing and bucking, and a couple of broken pistons are gouging into...
Policy of Idiocy. Before the Germans plunged into the Ukraine, Ukrainian Nationalists had some hopes of German "deliverance" from the Bolsheviks. But in the Baltic States the Nazi party went to idiotic lengths to lose friends and alienate people. Fredborg says the Nazis lost the rest of Europe the way they lost the Baltic States and the Ukraine. Where they might have taken advantage of the "latent, or rather instinctive, anti-Bolshevist sentiment still existing in most nations," they systematically outraged whole populations into feeling that Stalin was a brother in arms...
Hitler's struggles, as seen by Fredborg, resemble those of a fly struggling to get out of a pot of glue. If Hitler had not dominated the plan for attack on Russia, the German Army might have used an adaptation of the old Schlieffen strategy offered by General Marcks. The Marcks plan was to prepare a tremendous mass concentration in the Balkans, which the Russians might logically interpret as a move against Turkey. Then, without warning, the concentration could have been hurled against the Ukraine, with an ultimate wheeling turn toward Moscow up the valleys of the Dnieper...
Swedish Correspondent Arvid Fredborg, who emerged last May after two years in Germany, testified to the quality of the 1943 Wehrmacht in his book published in Stockholm last week. His conclusion: The German Army represents a powerful fighting force; while its spirit has grown worse, its discipline is undiminished...