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...from Churchill. Manstein's Junker ancestors had fought for two kaisers and one czar. Young Manstein was commissioned in the exclusive Potsdam Guards, finished World War I with the rank of captain. In World War II, he served brilliantly as chief of staff to Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt in the invasion of Poland; in the summer of 1940, by then in command of an army of his own, Manstein broke through the French line on the Somme. When Hitler launched his attack on Russia, it was Manstein who commanded the southern German army group, won a string...
There was Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a victor in Poland, France and the Ukraine, and 68 at the time of the Allied landings in Normandy. In retrospect, his tragedy was that Hitler always insisted on holding the most advanced point his troops reached, would not permit even slight strategic withdrawals until too late. After the Allies landed in Normandy, Hitler's headquarters had asked, "What shall we do?" Said Rundstedt: "End the war! What else...
...last August he suddenly left his headquarters on the Western Front, which he had just taken over from Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. With some of his staff, Kluge drove to a spot on a lonely road near Avranches in northwestern France. There he waited, hour after hour, for a party of U.S. Third Army officers with whom he had secretly arranged to discuss surrender. They did not appear. Fearing betrayal, Kluge hurried back to his headquarters. Awaiting him there was an order to report to Hitler in Berlin. Kluge got into a car, swallowed poison and died...
...most shameful and despicable affairs," said Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, "for an officer to be taken without fighting back or offering resistance." But, he explained, he was being treated for heart disease at Bad Tölz when he was captured...
...Sicily, southern Italy, the Donetz basin. With 1944 the Germans lost White Russia, the remainder of the Ukraine, half of Poland, most of the Balkans. Their aircraft plants and oil refineries were progressively reduced by the vast new weapon of the Allies: air power. Last week, captive Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt named Allied air superiority as the biggest single reason for Germany's final defeat...