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...Russia"; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Zhukov fought in World War I as a Czarist dragoon, in 1918 suited up as a Red Army cavalryman. After weathering both the shift to mechanized warfare and Stalin's purges of military professionals, Zhukov was Chief of Staff when Hitler first trained his guns on the U.S.S.R. In 1941 the marshal smashed the myth of Nazi invincibility by engineering the defense of Moscow with a flood of Siberian troops, and later won the great battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad and the Dnieper. An icy strategist and disciplinarian, he pushed to Berlin, sustaining...
...guidance . . . Perhaps it was just bad luck that he got there, or perhaps there was a certain historical inevitability to Liddy-perhaps if there had been no Liddy we would have created one." Elsewhere he quotes White House Aide Gordon Strachan as saying more succinctly, "Liddy's a Hitler, but at least he's our Hitler...
Brandt himself earned a reputation as a "good German." The illegitimate son of a Lübeck shopgirl, he joined the Socialist youth organization in 1931, and was forced to leave Germany after Hitler came to power. He first came to world attention as mayor of West Berlin between 1957 and 1966. During the recurring Berlin crises, including East Germany's erection of the Wall in 1961, Brandt was the symbol of his city's determination to remain free...
...Hamburg schoolteacher, Schmidt joined the Hitler Youth when the Nazis came to power in 1933 and later served as an artillery battery commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II until he was captured by the British. After the war, he studied economics at the University of Hamurg, where he was a star pupil of Karl Schiller, who later served as Brandt's first Finance Minister. Schmidt entered politics while still a student and became leader of the German Socialist Student Union, precursor of today's vociferous, left-wing Young Socialists (Jusos). He won a seat...
Despite such lapses into inaction, Fest concludes that Hitler was a man of incredibly strong will. "He made history with a highhandedness that even in his own days seemed anachronistic," writes Fest. "It is unimaginable that history will ever again be made in quite the same fashion-a succession of private inspirations, filled with coups and veerings, breathtaking perfidies, ideological self-betrayals, but with a tenaciously pursued vision in the back ground." Fest believes that "objective factors" in today's politics - presumably such things as international interdependence, vastly increased communications, and resources for popular resistance - would prevent another Hitler...