Word: heinze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. Army got another shock. A German broadcast paid awed tribute to a Russian weapon which U.S. Army ordnance experts apparently have not even been given a peek at. Said Nazi reporter Heinz Megerlein...
Colonel General Heinz Guderian had willed Budapest's doom for a reason that was obvious: he wanted to gain time for the defense of Austria. Out of Vienna moved a horde of old and young to dig trenches along the old Austro-Czechoslovak border. The Germans were reportedly moving what they could of Vienna's big war plants...
...soil of Russia and its neighbors. In the homeland the Germans had built deeper, more elaborate defenses, had strengthened them for the last year with more than a million men of the Todt organization. Swedish reporters talked learnedly of a new German "rolling defense" fathered by Field Marshal Heinz Guderian, eastern front commander, now fully restored to Adolf Hitler's fitful favor. Already emplaced in whole provinces, enormous masses of movable concrete bunkers of eight to 15 tons, called "scorpions," formed "tank landscapes." Before them were six or eight zones of mine blockades including contact mines of glass, controlled...
...this dire emergency, Hitler appointed his tank expert, Chief of Staff Heinz Guderian, to take command of the whole Russian front from the Baltic to Yugoslavia, Guderian conferred in Königsberg (according to the Soviet news agency Tass) with fat Hermann Göring, who had a personal reason for fury. The Russians had seized Göring's favorite hunting lodge in the East Prussian deer forest of Rominter Heide, after scattering the SS regiment on guard there. They found the lodge's wine cellar well stocked with French champagne, the study table piled with topographical...
Late Men. When Field Marshal Heinz Guderian took charge of the Wehrmaoht (TIME, Aug. 7), he had to draft reserves available for the west to bolster the German east front. Last week Guderian had to draft a field marshal from the east, where he had stopped the Russians before Warsaw, to try to stem the Allied tides in the west. The new oberbefehlshaber was stocky, monocled, 53-year-old Walter von Model (rhymes with yodel), popular in Germany, a Hitler-Himmler favorite as well. Model threw his energies into putting up a stiff delaying action on the Moselle River...