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Last week the official Berlin radio confirmed the report that Haider had been replaced and identified his successor: non-Junker, 47-year-old General Kurt Zeitzler, long a friend and protege of the Gestapo's Heinrich Himmler, for whom the Army Prussians have no love. Gustav Siegfried Eins, still broadcasting reports which would normally bring quick extermination to any station in Germany, growled that General Haider was "confined" at his home...
...months ago, with cold disapproval, Gustav Siegfried Eins reported that Hitler had fired the Bavarian chief of the Wehrmacht's General Staff, Colonel General Franz Haider, who largely planned the invasions of Poland, France, the Balkans and Russia. Stockholm correspondents reported that Hitler had, summoned Haider before the assembled staff and barked: "I am under the impression that your achievements do not keep up with my demands and you are unable to follow my intentions. I thank you for your work hitherto...
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...