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Nazi Chief of Staff Heinz Guderian pleaded for volunteers from the Hitler-jugend (boys 14 to 17 years). The propaganda radio bleated: "Thousands of fanatic Hitler youths are moving up to the front." For Producer Eisenhower the problem was to get his cast and props on the spot at once. The Germans clinging to the ports of France were spending their lives to delay him. Eisenhower's drives were already in operation at a fantastic distance of 400 to 550 miles from Cherbourg and the nearby beaches, the fount of his supplies. If he were to attack quickly...
...Guderian was not one of the innermost circle of Prussian officers. He lacked the Junker background. But he was not an outsider. Born at Chelmo on the Vistula, in German Poland, he was an officer's son. He had an eminently correct career as cadet, junior officer, staff officer in World...
...more or less typical Pomeranian of medium height, stocky, with heavy features, thinning grey hair, a small mustache, Heinz Guderian has deep-set eyes, prominent cheekbones and a patronymic that might indicate an Armenian strain...
Shorn of his occupational handicaps, Heinz Guderian could pass as a good fellow. He unbends rather more than a high-ranking German officer should before civilians and is a mannerly, affable conversationalist. But he is all Army. In the old days he liked best to sit with fellow officers beer-drinking and shop-talking, especially about the employment of armored force...
...biting rages: one after the Moscow repulse, one in the 1938 "conquest" of Austria, when his tanks, all dressed up for the Führer's victory parade in Vienna, ran out of gas many miles away. Presumably he could survive a third, if need be. Guderian may also have it in mind that he used to be regarded as one of the "realistic" officers who demanded collaboration with Russia-a fact that might recommend him as a member of some future negotiating committee. Until such time Hitler could probably depend...