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Word: heinrici (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came Hitler's suicide in the Berlin bunker. Keitel was baffled. He had followed Hitler's every order in the naive belief that the Führer would accept responsibility for his actions. While more cynical generals like Gotthard Heinrici, commander of the Vistula Army Group, beat a retreat toward the American lines, Keitel went back to Berlin to sign the surrender document that he had never believed would be written. All around him the other evil men of Nazidom were taking the easy way out: Hitler was followed in suicide by Himmler, Goebbels and Goring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hitler's Drudge | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

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