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...attest to strong German armies waiting in western Europe, a 25-mile layer of heavy guns, pillboxes and concrete fortresses along the Channel coast, air and armored forces waiting at central points to rush to any invasion sector. Germany's "Commander in the West," tough, wrinkled Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, unquestionably had real and formidable defenses to inspect when he toured them last week...
...with its plans for the Canadians. But wherever he is, at the British War Office or at U.S. headquarters in London, General McNaughton always has with him a portfolio of thumb-worn maps. They are maps of the coast of northern France, where Hitler's Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt waits with his guns...
...Napoleon's invasion of England, bristles with protective armament. If a handful of men could thus dare the Nazi guns, perhaps something was rotten in all Hitler's coastal defenses. Certainly the defenses of Boulogne were not raid-proof. Shortly after the raid, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, lately named as commander of all German forces in western Europe, ordered the arrest of several Nazis, jailed 150 Frenchmen suspected of having given assistance to the British...
...west: 1) the whole German battle fleet, now a formidable weapon, is assembled between the Hook of Holland and Trondheim, Norway; 2) the British claim (probably extravagantly) that half the fighter strength of the Luftwaffe is drawn up near the invasion coast; 3) Germany's best Field Marshal, Gerd von Rundstedt, has been sent to France; 4) Petain is out and Laval and his Anglophobes are in; 5) British experts say that Germany has been building gliders and transports all winter long. Perhaps these things had no relation to each other; but perhaps they did. Hitler might...
...Caucasus. More recently, since the failure of his Russian designs, Hitler had proposed a turnabout invasion of Britain. This had been opposed by all his top commanders, all proud veterans of Germany's aristocratic military caste-Field Marshals von Brauchitsch, Fedor von Bock, Ritter Wilhelm von Leeb, Gerd von Rundstedt. They had now been dismissed or had "resigned" or were "gravely ill." The self-proclaimed Oberste Befehlshaber was left to carry on with the support of such latecomers to the military aristocracy as Chief of Operations General Alfred Jodl, Inspector General of the Air Force General Erhard Milch...