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...Hindenburg. When World War I broke out in 1914, Russia was completely unready. Recruits had no rifles, ammunition was short, even such necessities as shoes for soldiers were lacking. But the Russians were persuaded to attack the German rear, and for two years an army that was scarcely an army served to divert German attention from the real job, the Western Front...
...Russians took the offensive, sweeping the Austrians back in Galicia. Great masses of Slavonic troops, especially Czechs, deserted and went over to the Russians. All this time General von Hindenburg had been obliged to keep over 100 divisions-which might have done the trick in France-on the Eastern Front. And it was not so much German arms, but Russian conspiracy against Russian authority, which in 1917 turned the tide in the East...
Lessons of Finland. Crusty old Paul von Hindenburg once said: "Any general who fights against the Russians can be perfectly sure of one thing: he will be outnumbered." The Germans are outnumbered in this battle. First reports indicated that the Russians had about 175 divisions on the front, to about 130 German divisions-perhaps 3,000,000 Russians against perhaps 2,000,000 Germans...
Henderson's Lesson. The first lesson of history is to read it. That Leon Henderson has done. Bernard Baruch is a man of peace, but of the 1918 U.S. economic effort, which Baruch managed, Field Marshal von Hindenburg wrote: "Her brilliant, if pitiless, war industry had entered the service of patriotism and had not failed it. ... They understood...
...wonder that Hitler today is a far different creature from the man who deferentially greeted President von Hindenburg in January 1933 when the old Field Marshal reluctantly accepted him as Chancellor. Since then he has taken the measure of most of Europe's statesmen including Britain's own Prime Minister Chamberlain. His once co-equal ally, Mussolini, is now only his stooge...