Word: haider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freezing the Germans out was a remoter prospect than it was last year, when the Germans definitely were not frozen out. Moreover, the Germans were feverishly preparing to beat General Winter. Hitler appointed three of his best generals to organize the winter front: Colonel General Franz Haider, canny Chief of the General Staff (TIME, Jan. 13, 1941), General Alfred Jacob, who helped build the Westwall fortifications in 1938, and General Gustav von Wietersheim, a supply expert whose vast job would surely tax all his talents...
...this alignment, but its fulfillment was delayed. Rundstedt was like Bock and Leeb, but there were other variations from the Junker pattern. Broad-faced Brauchitsch truckled to Hitler, became Commander in Chief of the German Army in 1938. Jaunty, rakehell Keitel made compromises, became Chief of the Supreme Command. Haider became Chief of the General Staff...
From the barbed-wire fastness of a German prison camp a Briton wrote thus last week, describing an extraordinary scene which had broken prison monotony. The Germans, with great ceremony, paid tribute to one of their own prisoners, Lieut. Commander Stephen Haider Beattie. Through the Red Cross notification had come of the award to Beattie of the Victoria Cross, highest British military medal, for gallantry against the Nazis. Beattie's feat: skippering the destroyer Campbeltown into St.-Nazaire during the war's biggest Commando raid (TIME, April 6), ramming his ship's nose against drydock gates...
...pulk was not new in its elements, but in its design and use. The Germans, who once scorned weight and mass for the lighter, faster Panzer technique, had now gone whole hog for mass. So had other armies. The achievement of Hitler's Chief of Staff Franz Haider was in giving his mass a speed and flexibility which in pace rivaled his 1939-41 Blitzkrieg...
After One Year. This week was the anniversary of Germany's first attack on Russia, and General Haider had the lessons of the first year's failures to help him in making his second year's plans...