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...overdue mission. As for the flyers, they are overwhelmed by no vision of their Führer's "Gotterdämmerung," just a nagging sense of failure ("They meant to defend a Thermopylae, but there was no Thermopylae to defend"). Himself a fighter pilot in World War II, Gerd Gaiser puts a peculiar mystique about Hitler in the mouth of one of his characters: "God has sent him to us and he has come to corrupt us. I understand that and yet I don't." More easily understandable are onetime Painter Gaiser's word pictures...
...LAST SQUADRON (251 pp.)−Gerd Gaiser−Pantheon...
...World War II, General Eisenhower and Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery did not see eye to eye on all things military, but they agreed that the best of the German generals they faced was Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. The stiff, cold, duty-obsessed old Prussian never joined any plots against Hitler, but he often opposed the Führer's plans and acts, was three times removed from command, and in the end came to despise a man he sometimes called "Corporal Hitler." B. H. Liddell Hart says that von Rundstedt was an abler soldier than Field...
...Obedient Soldier. Karl Rudolph Gerd von Rundstedt was born in Ascherleben, the son of a Prussian major general. At 12, he was a military cadet; at 17, a lieutenant in Wilhelm II's army. He fought creditably on three fronts in World War I, and by 1929 was a lieutenant general. His first unsavory taste of politics came in 1932, when he was ordered by Chancellor von Papen to oust the Socialist ministers of Prussia; he obeyed. The ranking general when Hitler shortly came to power, von Rundstedt did nothing to hobble the Führer, acquiesced-however unwillingly...
Died. Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, 77, Prussian commander of German armies under Hitler from the invasion of Poland to the Battle of the Bulge; of a circulatory ailment; in Hanover, Germany (see INTERNATIONAL...