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Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's generalship looked good. Using every possible means of deception and concealment, he had massed a formidable attacking force in the hills and woods. Allied air reconnaissance had reported some movement and concentrations there, but headquarters had not fully evaluated the enemy's real strength and intentions. Rundstedt had achieved tactical and strategic surprise...
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's skillful breakthrough had had the first great element of success: surprise. He had struck the thinnest sector of the American line. He had cleverly begun with light attacks, concealing his intentions, playing upon the Americans' underestimation of his strength...
...Your Great Hour." But Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt was thinking too. His converse idea: to take off the Allies' pressure in the Düren-Jülich sector by a full-out attack even farther south. Just past his 69th birthday but by no means a tired old man, Rundstedt was reported to be at Coblenz, where he had assembled his best tactical brains in one headquarters. To his troops he proclaimed...
...September Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and an armed escort drove to Berchtesgaden to visit Hitler...
Under Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, the classic Junker who is generally regarded as Germany's ablest soldier, Field Marshal Walter Model was commanding in the north, and General Hermann Balck in the south. Model was personally decorated by Hitler last summer for stopping the Russians at the Vistula. Balck had shown defensive ability in the Ukraine, and after the Allied invasion of southern France he succeeded in bringing the remnants of his Panzer corps back to Germany. Now, wherever possible, Model and Balck are sacrificing substandard troops to save good ones. At sensitive spots they still...