Word: fritsche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning of the exhibit is a quotation from General Oberst Baron Werner von Fritsch, former chief of the German General Staff: "the Nation with the best photographic interpretation will win the next war." The following posters trace the three phases of photographic interpretation in action, and include copies of reconnaissance reports on Japanese island fortifications, and pictures of enemy, installations from the Navy's operational files...
...photogrammetrists compiling charts and several squadrons of flying cameramen (divided into strategic and tactical groups), while a third of the planes on every bombing mission carry cameras. Reconnaissance flyers, a cocky, confident group, like to quote a prewar prediction by German General Werner von Fritsch: "The military organization with the best aerial photo reconnaissance will win the next...
...took command of the First Army District, became a pillar of conservatism in the East Prussian Junker milieu, a loyal follower of archconservative General Werner von Fritsch. General von Brauchitsch did not oppose the Nazis; he snubbed them as upstarts. But to appease the old-line Army caste, Hitler made him Commander in Chief with Cabinet Minister rank...
...When Fritsch was killed in Poland, probably shot in the back by the Gestapo, Brauchitsch made the funeral speech: "The unshakable loyalty with which this best soldier of the German Army served his unbreakable principles of honor, in good and in bad times, make him an example, the only example for every German soldier...
...Chancellor, a suspicious-looking Mrs. Paul Budde was arrested in the Chancellery with a twelve-inch dagger concealed on her person. In 1934 Papen was on Adolf Hitler's purge list, but was saved by German Army guards sent to his home by the late General Werner von Fritsch. By 1935 Papen had proved his usefulness to Adolf Hitler as Minister to Austria, but Austrian Nazis tried several times to obliterate the Minister. In 1937 Papen's murder was ordered by Rudolf Hess and prevented by Papen's own agents...