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...France's Maginot Line in 1940, sometime (1941-42) commander of the Nazi forces on Russia's northern front, coruscant author (Defense, Chronicle of the Leeb Family); after long illness; in Augsburg, Germany. One of Hitler's most trusted theoreticians, Aristocrat Leeb finally broke with the Fuhrer over Russian campaign strategy, retired...
...followers to build around him the kind of leadership cult that apotheosized Stalin or, before him, Nationalist China's Sun Yat-sen. "The Chinese people are more rational than religious," the author writes, and "Mao understands the temperament of the Chinese too well to attempt the role of a Fuhrer." Kuo obviously gets carried away when he talks of the "basic humanism" and "tolerance" of the Chinese Communist regime and its "democratic spirit at the top." Nonetheless, his description of the "collective leadership" that Mao has fostered at Peking is very enlightening, especially since it suggests that the present rulers...
...Lieut. General Adolf Heusinger. 58. a small (5 ft. 6 in.), sandy-haired army veteran who began his career as a cadet in World War 1, rose to be Wehrmacht chief of operations in 1940, was standing at Hitler's side when the bomb exploded in the Fuhrer's East Prussian headquarters on July 20, 1944. Heusinger was a participant in the plot, although he did not know the bomb had been set for that time, and he was put under Nazi house arrest until war's end. Considered by some a colorless, wavering...
Raeder's claim to this distinction could not be shared by the five top war criminals he left behind him in Spandau: one time Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess, Hitler Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, Munitions-Maker Albert Speer, former Reichsbank President Walther Funk and Doenitz. But in other prisons under British, French and U.S. control, there are still 104 lesser war criminals whose status is now likely to come under review...
...capitulated in World War II, a fanatic Wehrmacht general, commanding a force of last-ditch Nazis, held out against the Russians in a Bohemian mountain redoubt. Field Marshal Ferdinand Schorner, 62, had been named by Hitler to succeed him as commander-in-chief of the German army; in the Fuhrer's last testament his name ranked sixth.* In pursuance of the dead Fuhrer's wishes, Schorner went on fighting, ruthlessly killing hundreds of his own men who resisted the futile slaughter. He finally deserted his outfit disguised as a Tyrolean peasant, gave himself up to the U.S. 42nd...