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Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, who for a year has been commander of German defenses in western Europe, appeared last week in Sicily. Just before leaving Berlin he said (according to BBC): "I share Marshal Rommel's opinion that the Eighth Army has been chosen to invade the European Continent...
Taciturn, aging Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, placed by Adolf Hitler "at the permanent disposition" of the French Chief of State, last week clapped hundreds of suspect Frenchmen in jail, tightened frontier surveillance and ordered confiscation of radio sets. Rundstedt had something new to contend with: partisan warfare...
...Namely: Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, recently put over all France, 66; Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Prussian who helped conquer Poland, Paris, the North Caucasus, 61; Field Marshal Siegmund List, who led the Balkan campaign, 62; Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, who commands the northern front in Russia...
...Army and Navy. The great naval base of Toulon, last remaining bit of the free zone, was to be occupied, the warships stationed there taken or "annihilated" to prevent their escape to the Allies. Control of all France would pass into the hands of Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander of German armed forces in Occupied France and the Low Countries. The letter -many pages long-concluded with the "hope that cooperation thus is initiated from which we expect on France's part nothing but loyalty and understanding for the common destiny of Europe...
When Adolf Hitler was still a mousy plotter, Gerd von Rundstedt was already one of the Reich's first soldiers. Impersonally affable, yet detached and consciously superior, he was not a man to let other officers call him by his first name or use the familiar Du. He was known far & wide, and with vast respect, as der General...