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...Desert Fox" may not have been so foxy after all. According to an impressive roster of military experts appearing on West German TV, World War II Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was far from the brave and brilliant commander Hitler had cracked him up to be. Rommel's understanding of strategy was "slight," said General Ulrich de Maiziere, the Bundeswehr's chief of staff. After studying the archives, the program's director said: "He couldn't work with large bodies, and he panicked when faced with great tasks." Rommel's appeal to Hitler, suggested General Wolf...
Wolf Cubs. Destiny has thwarted Steiner: in seven wars he has never been on the winning side. His first military experience was in the World War II Nazi "Wolf Cubs," a branch of the Hitler Youth. Two years after the war ended he ran away from a Catholic seminary and joined the French Foreign Legion. He saw action in Korea, Indochina, the Middle East and Algeria. Steiner next went to Biafra. "They wanted to play a little bit of war," he recalled recently, "so I went there to play...
Throughout, Wouk confronts great personages headon. His research has been massive; yet a sense of strain afflicts conversations with the likes of Hitler, Göring and Roosevelt. Did Wouk invent or acquire from some historical footnote that bit about the President's martinis? ("This is an excellent martini," Pug says to a beaming F.D.R. "It sort of tastes like it isn't there. Just a cold cloud.") Hitler's nervous little knee kick is familiar, but what about those "snatching, greedy fingers" as the Führer gobbles iced cakes at a reception? There...
...from the border, she said at the National Press Club, because "we don't trust Pakistan to withdraw." As for negotiating with Pakistan, she was adamant in her refusal. As she told an audience in London, "You could have said, 'Let's have a talk with Hitler.' But you didn't. You fought on for four hard years. That is the situation today." At the White House State dinner, she asked: "Has not your own society been built of people who have fled from social and economic injustice? From those who value and uphold democratic...
History's greatest brain drain occurred during the 1930s, when thousands of intellectuals fled Nazi Germany and took refuge in other countries. What Germany lost and other nations gained was re-emphasized last week when the latest Nobel prizes in science went to two refugees from Hitler: Dennis Gabor, who won the 1971 prize in physics for his invention of holography, and Gerhard Herzberg, who earned the laurels in chemistry for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy...