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Germany moved into Belgium on Aug. 4-and the mistakes began soon thereafter. Until his death in 1913, Schlieffen had reiterated: "Make the right wing strong." But his successor, General Helmuth von Moltke, was a Christian Scientist, a cello player, and a cautious man: he weakened the right wing to strengthen the line elsewhere. When the preposterous Russians, unequipped, untrained and unafraid, invaded East Prussia, Moltke forgot Schlieffen and diverted two corps from the Belgian drive to the Russian front. The two corps were never needed; General Erich Ludendorff routed the Russians at Tannenberg before his reinforcements arrived...
...little mining town in Ontario find happiness with a continental pastor who has advanced ideas? Last week Cobalt (pop. 2,400) was all riled up about Pastor Helmuth Ludwig Wipprecht and the commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery...
...days later the school board notified him that he was suspended. Helmuth Wipprecht hit the roof, where many of the children's parents had preceded him. "I don't see how any teaching can explain the meaning of the Seventh Commandment without reference to sex.'' he exploded. "You might as well try to explain about fishing without using the word fish." When the board complained that he was dealing with a controversial subject, he countered that "if some people are against adultery, and it is controversial, then some people must be in favor...
...cope with the growing resistance against the Nazi occupation. Adolf Hitler dispatched egg-bald SS General Karl Oberg to Paris with orders to get tough. Oberg did. In the next two years as head of the Nazi security police in France, Oberg and his eagle-beaked adjutant, SS Colonel Helmuth Knochen, were responsible for the execution of more than 1,000 French hostages, the execution of underground resistance fighters at Mont Valérien and at the Cascade in Paris' beautiful park, the Bois de Boulogne, the extermination of hundreds of the Maquis, the destruction of the old port...
...tone is set by Helmuth James, Count von Moltke, a great-grandnephew of the Prussian field marshal whose strategy won the Franco-Prussian war. Moltke was executed at the Plotzensee prison in January 1945 for discussing matters "that are the exclusive concern of the Fuhrer." By his name and rank he could have aspired to any position in Hitler's Reich; instead, he agreed with what his jailers told him at his own trial: "Christianity and we National Socialists have one thing in common, and one thing only: we claim the whole man." Agreeing, he died a whole...