Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Viewed as the result of purely military factors, such a degree of Nazi confusion and demoralization" was fantastic. It was believable only as arising in part from the long-smoldering crisis in Germany's High Command which exploded last week (see The Enemy). It was in Russia that Hitler's "fight for every mile" policy had been reduced to the most utter and glaring bankruptcy. It is hard for a commander to follow orders that he knows to be ridiculous. If he knows there is trouble where the orders come from, it is only human and natural...
...Bleak Province. Probably the most conservative general would have agreed with Hitler that Germany must defend East Prussia, the bleak province which is supposed to breed the "iron bowels" of the Junkers. On the sector covering East Prussia, from Kaunas to Grodno, the Russians paused for a whole week. The natural defenses before them-swamps, lakes and dense forests-were forbidding. The man-made defenses, particularly the strategic network of railways built long ago, were equally formidable. In this treacherous country, the Tsarist armies of World War I suffered their first great defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg...
...lessons of Spain and Finland had been learned. Soviet design was sharpened up, and the factories began a change over to new types. In the midst of this process, Hitler struck...
...voice went on: ". . . The Führer suffered no injuries except light burns and bruises. . . . He resumed work and, as scheduled, received the Duce. . . . A short time after, Reich Marshal Goring arrived. . . ." Wounded with Hitler were 12 of his military advisers, some of them seriously. That...
Around the world as in Berlin the tense voice sounded like the crack of doom. The one question that flashed through every mind was: is this the end, "the crackup? Had the long-awaited struggle between Hitler and his generals begun...