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...striking to European military observers as Adolf Hitler's calling 1,000,000 men to arms last week, was the fact that he recalled to the colors one man, Colonel General Werner von Fritsch, rated Germany's most able commander...
Like Tennis Player Baron Gottfried von Cramm who talked too much about his political opinions while touring the world, General von Fritsch, who opposed sending German aid to Rightist Spain and more than once told Hitler that Germany is not yet sufficiently prepared to fight a war, was smeared by accusations of homosexuality. Whereas Cramm was sent to jail, Fritsch, of a size too big to jail, merely had to resign as head of the army (TIME...
This was not wholly ill fortune for him. His eclipse saved him from any blame for the breakdown in the German motorized divisions during the invasion of Austria. Whether because of Fritsch's personal popularity with the army clique* or because the Nazis felt he would soon be needed to run Germany's war machine, a "Court of Honor" recently cleared his personal honor...
...smoothly. . . ." If Adolf Hitler had capitulated to the generals on these points last week, and apparently General von Fritsch thought he had the Führer at the point of capitulation, the whole course of current German history would have been altered. Herr Hitler, with his mystique momentarily shattered, decided in the greatest excitement not to call a session of the Reichstag which he was to have addressed. He might next have sent for General von Fritsch and capitulated, but instead he sent for Nazi Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Secret Political Police, and General von Fritsch, the Army commander...
Hitler Über Alles. Once more Adolf Hitler, advised by his inscrutable intuition, staked everything on a Nazi throw. The Fuhrer announced not only that he accepted the resignations of Field Marshal von Blomberg and General von Fritsch but also that he assumed control of the War Ministry himself and further-to make his defiant mood unmistakable-accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath, appointing to replace him Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the chief Nazi architect of the anti-Communist pact of Germany, Japan and Italy (TIME...