Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There would be last-minute appeals and a low blow or two, just before the bell. (This week Truman hinted that Dewey is a "front man" for fascism, and likened him to Hitler.) In an effort to inject some commotion, both parties revived the old-time torchlight procession. Harry Truman began the week with a monster rally in Chicago, where Boss Jake Arvey's minions kindled enough flame and fireworks to burn down the whole town. Tom Dewey, after another dash through the Midwest, would conclude his campaign at a Madison Square Garden rally which would be heralded...
...Adolf Hitler had proposed some tinkering with The Merry Widow too. He used to see it as often as three times in a month, but he wanted Lehar to "modernize" it. Hitler's admiration cooled, and later Lehar was put under house arrest in Vienna because he had refused to abandon his wife, a "non-Aryan." At war's end, the composer fared hardly better with the Russians. When his wife Sophie told Red army soldiers that her husband's papers and manuscripts were priceless, they snorted "Capitalist!" and destroyed...
There was Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a victor in Poland, France and the Ukraine, and 68 at the time of the Allied landings in Normandy. In retrospect, his tragedy was that Hitler always insisted on holding the most advanced point his troops reached, would not permit even slight strategic withdrawals until too late. After the Allies landed in Normandy, Hitler's headquarters had asked, "What shall we do?" Said Rundstedt: "End the war! What else...
Numbers v. Reality. Liddell Hart gives fragments of his discussions with Field Marshal von Kleist (who conducted the retreat from Russia) and a dozen others. They all had bitter recollections-Hitler's disregard of their advice; their success in carrying out impossible orders, only to be supplanted afterwards; the constant surveillance of the Gestapo. General von Manteuffel, an army commander at 47, told how Hitler would intoxicate himself with figures and quantities...
Double Nightmare. The generals got very little information from agents in Britain. (Hitler may have gotten more and kept it from them.) Hitler himself made only one trip to the Channel coast. He went to Cap Gris Nez one day in 1940, looked over the Channel toward Britain, and went home. The "Atlantic Wall" was never a system of continuous fortifications; Rundstedt called its defenses "absurdly overrated." There was no real cooperation between the Luftwaffe and the ground forces, the generals told Liddell Hart. And the Battle of the Bulge, which seemed so powerful an assault to the Allies...