Word: fritsche
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...death. No nonsensical tirades could conceal the fact that 17 days after Germany announced Warsaw had fallen, citizens were dying in that city, bombs were still falling, shells were still shattering the suburbs. The radio announcer, awaiting a death as final as that of Premier Calinescu or General Fritsch, could expect no state funeral when he fell. There were none for the 1,000 civilians whose bodies, he reported, were lying in the streets. When the radio broke down under gunfire, he announced that it would soon be fixed, like a man repairing a puncture. Half the city, said...
...Army knew it was not ready. Loyalties were split between the Army and the Nazis, and there was sharp disagreement between those who were willing to back Hitler in a bluff and those who counseled delay. Brauchitsch kept mum, but when the purge came and Blomberg and Fritsch lost their jobs,* his good friend Reichenau recommended him to Hitler as the man to lead the Army. In February 1938, he took over its command, with the rank of Colonel General, and became a member of the Secret Cabinet Council created to advise Hitler on foreign policy...
...probably come fourth, but not necessarily so. No secret is it that he has aspired to the posts of Minister of the Interior and of War. He is intensely jealous of the Army officer group and last year went so far as to try to remove General Werner von Fritsch, then Commander-in-Chief of the Army, from his job by charging homosexuality. The General was ousted-for other reasons-but in the face of the plain truth that he was definitely not homosexual, the Army demanded and got General von Fritsch's public exoneration...
Every man of the Twelfth Artillery Regiment and a great galaxy of German Army chiefs turned out in Berlin for the rehabilitation of Fritsch, his return to a status in which he can again become, as he was for some years, the general around whom other German generals rallied in their frequent moments of friction with the Nazi Party. The generals, especially Fritsch, have always in the past opposed bold Nazi strokes-like remilitarization of the Rhineland-which might lead to war should the Hitler bluff be called. The recall of Fritsch, however, was susceptible of another interpretation: that...
...time Dictator Hitler received a letter supporting Fritsch signed by every German general of a division...