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Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt well knew which was the most vulnerable sector: the Aachen area where Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' U.S. First Army had already sunk a spearhead aimed at the Cologne plain. The Germans had watched for nearly two months as the Americans moved in 1,000 guns, massed a whole new army-the U.S. Ninth of tall, bald, bowlegged Lieut. General William H. Simpson...
Perhaps this retreat, a sound strategic move, reflected the return to command on the western front of Germany's No. 1 soldier, chill Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who was apparently back in Hitler's favor. Field Marshal Walter von Model, the previous commander, was now in charge of the northern sector under Rundstedt. Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz commanded the southern...
...embodied their great tradition and their desperate dilemma was the man who indicted Yorck von Wartenburg and his seven gallows-mates for treason against the Third Reich and conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler-Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt...
Judge of His Peers. No man had a better training for sitting in judgement on Germany's ruling class than Gerd von Rundstedt. The Rundstedts had been lords in the Altmark of Brandenburg since at least 1123. Rundstedt's father was a Prussian major general, his grandfather a major, his great-grandfather a lieutenant colonel...
From his birth Gerd von Rundstedt was destined for the army. Before he tired of playing with lead soldiers, under his father's approving eye, he found himself a freshman in the cadet school at Oranienstein. There and at Gross-Lichterfelde, the wiry, chilly stripling learned the code of selfless devotion to duty and class. At 17, Rundstedt became a lieutenant...