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...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...
These basic facts were known when the Nazi High Command sat down to plan the German campaign of 1942. They are axioms which must have been burned into the military brain of Hitler's No. 1 strategist, Generaloberst Franz Haider, Chief of the German Army's General Staff...
With this starting-time limit and the necessity of finishing before another winter, General Haider and his staff had to devise a plan for crushing Russia in a few months' time-a campaign as crushing as those against Poland in 1939 and France in 1940, a campaign better than the blitz-that-failed against Russia in 1941. This had to be the greatest thunderbolt of all and it had to strike on time...
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...
...knew the German plans was a hardheaded artillery expert named Franz Haider. In World War I he served as a captain and General Staff officer with the Bavarian infantry, has stuck to the same work ever since. As Chief of the German General Staff in 1939 he laid the plans of the Polish campaign, capped them the following spring with the strategy devised for the Western Front. Since his Commander in Chief, Field Marshal Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch, was reputedly dubious about the invasion of Britain, General Haider may organize it himself. The invasion's leadership might...