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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...
...Heinz Guderian's career, there were a few clues. At 56, taking over the biggest command of his life, Guderian was judged by his enemies a sound tactician and dynamic leader. His personal courage and tactical aggressiveness were well established. A singleminded, painstaking planner, he was always willing to take a calculated risk. He had won some of Germany's most striking victories in World War II. But he was also a general who had lost his most important battle-at a high-water mark of Nazi conquest...
What he needed was an able officer, acceptable to the old-line officers and to the Party men, but not too deeply involved with either group. In bringing Heinz Guderian back from obscurity Hitler may well have tapped the only general who could and would take...
...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...