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...towns in Europe recalled the disastrous traditional enmity between France and Germany more strongly than the pleasant spa of Bad Kreuznach (pop. 33,000) in Rhineland-Palatinate. In Bad Kreuznach's ornate Kurhaus, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg planned German operations on the Western Front during the last two years of World War I; from the same building, Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt directed the Wehrmacht's withdrawal from France in World War II. Last week in the salon of the Kurhaus, France's Charles de Gaulle, who fought the Germans in both wars, raised a glass...
Haig never got a chance to use his beloved cavalry effectively. The horses not only failed as bullet stoppers, but they suffered almost as much from mud and barbed wire as the men. The tanks that Haig despised ripped through the Hindenburg Line with trifling losses, but by that time Haig's reserves were used up and he had no follow-through. Flanders was a sickening campaign, and Author Wolff's clear, cool account effectively re-creates its horror. Perhaps the last word falls to Haig's chief of staff. Lieut. General Sir Launcelot Kiggell, who, according...
Printed Proof. Intoxicated by his brief taste of glory, Witte went back to Germany, and after World War I formed a "Party of Artisans, Cafe Keepers and Circus Performers." He himself became its candidate for President of Germany, but withdrew from the race "to give Field Marshal von Hindenburg a chance." To any doubters among those who gathered daily around his house trailer in Sankt Pauli, Otto Witte would produce his official identity card issued by the Berlin police, stating that its holder was "a circus entertainer" and "onetime King of Albania." He refused to accept any mail that...
...Ebert's telephones rang-the private line from the headquarters of the beaten German army at Spa, 360 miles away. With vast relief, Chancellor Ebert heard the voice of Hindenburg's First Quartermaster-General Wilhelm Grb'ner offering an alliance with the Socialists on behalf of the German officer corps...
...Plot That Failed. Out of favor with President Hindenburg, Hans von Seeckt finally gave way, in 1926, to another general, sly Kurt von Schleicher. Under Schleicher, the army was not above, but in, politics. Vain, unscrupulous, he schemed incessantly behind the republic's back. Worst of all, he let Hitler's private army of brown shirts grow to a scrap-happy, unmanageable...