Word: germans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be up to the historians to decide whether German-born Henry Kissinger is advising the President wisely on national security. His reputation as the President's resident wit, however, should already be assured. Samples...
...black, Czech-built Tatra limousine pulled up outside Bonn's White House, the Villa Hammerschmidt. Out stepped two East German diplomats, chilled from their unannounced eleven-hour journey over the icy autobahn from East Berlin. They carried a letter from East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht to West German President Gustav Heinemann...
...Britain professed no such misgivings last week, though both were skeptical of what would eventually emerge from Bonn's negotiations with the East. The French, however, were openly unhappy. Some diplomats and journalists saw a parallel to Rapallo, the Italian Riviera resort where the Germans and Russians concluded a friendship treaty in 1922. It was the Rapallo pact that opened the way for the German army to train secretly on Russian territory, an operation that continued into the '30s. Rapallo prompted Georges Clemenceau to warn: "The Germans are becoming independent again...
...Rush. Today, historians describe the battle as Hitler's last great gamble, and German generals who survived the war as one of his great blunders. In interviews with several of those generals, TIME's Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate learned how they sought to alter der Führer's plan, and how the postwar history of Europe might have changed had they succeeded...
...reason for not accepting the opinions of his generals. As Siegfried Westphal, Rundstedt's chief of staff and now a steel executive, told Cate: "The generals had been wrong about both Czechoslovakia and Poland. None of us believed that such blitz campaigns were possible. Even in France, the German military predicted that the campaign would last much more than six weeks. Hitler was proved right, and ever afterward he followed his own judgment. Naturally, France was the last time he was right...