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These basic facts were known when the Nazi High Command sat down to plan the German campaign of 1942. They are axioms which must have been burned into the military brain of Hitler's No. 1 strategist, Generaloberst Franz Haider, Chief of the German Army's General Staff...
...fact that he feels this way about the Nazis is one big reason why Army Commander-in-Chief Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch has the job of Germany's No. 1 Fighting Man. The German officer corps' leading exponent of not getting along with the Nazis, aristocratic, bemonocled Generaloberst Baron Werner von Fritsch, died under curious circumstances last week (see p. 21). Meanwhile, the German Army High Command was negotiating with the Soviet Army High Command through military commissions of German and Russian officers who met first at Brest-Litovsk and then at Moscow. They swiftly agreed last week...
Three weeks ago Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch was little more than a name outside Germany, an untried general who was supposed to be a good organizer but no theorist, whose rise to the position of Commander in Chief of the German Land Forces had been due at least partly to his willingness to back Adolf Hitler where more experienced generals would not. This week Brauchitsch was a name to put beside those of Moltke, Ludendorff and Schlieffen: not only was he Germany's No. 1 Krieger (warrior), but he had fostered, planned and led the Blitzkrieg-and proved...
Next, in the House of Commons, various Labor Members denounced last week the expected representation of Germany at the Coronation by Ministerprdsident-Generaloberst Goring. Fresh from the U. S., where she harangued Detroit strikers, famed little Laborite Miss Ellen Wilkinson had to be coldly ignored in the House by Viscount Cranborne, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, when she shrieked: "Can we have some guarantee that we shall not be insulted by the presence of General Goring as Germany's representative at the Coronation?" So far as British officials knew last week, Goring is coming and that is that...
...parliament of soldiers, the uniformed Reichstag waited 30 minutes for its Messiah to arrive in flaring black military breeches, well-shined boots and unadorned brown shirt. Up jumped the Reichstag to salute and "HEIL HITLER!" Down sat the Reichstag. Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick nominated Minister-Prasident-Generaloberst Hermann Wilhelm Goring, fresh from his parleys in Rome with II Duce, to be Speaker again. Up jumped the Reichstag, thus electing him unanimously...
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