Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...April 12, 1945, when the Ninth Army reached the Elbe at Magdeburg, most of Hitler's army commanders were ready for surrender to the West because the whole defense system had broken down. We know this from postwar interrogations of high German civilian and military officers. This shows the error of appraisal that an American march to Berlin would cost 100,000 casualties. Of course, neither Eisenhower nor Bradley can be blamed, because they had to rely on intelligence reports. The miscalculation of the fighting power of the Nazi units when Germany was already completely disintegrated was no less...
...Cavalry, Abrams earned the reputation of being the worst polo player in the U.S. Army, and mastered the day's standard tactics of how to attack an enemy tank: circle it at 15 yds. with five troopers like Indians closing in on a wagon train. Not until Hitler's Panzer divisions blitzkrieged France out of World War II in 1940 did the Army really begin its own tank program. Assigned to the brand-new 4th Armored Division, Abrams rose to command the 37th Battalion with the rank of major, drilled his tankers incessantly in marksmanship-particularly on getting...
...grey spring of 1940, when most of Europe had fallen to Hitler's legions, Arthur Krock, then the Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, read and was deeply impressed by the college thesis of a 23-year-old Harvard senior. Krock urged that the paper be published in book form-and with the title Why England Slept, it sold some 40,000 copies on both sides of the Atlantic. As a study of the mistakes that took Britain into war, and as a warning to the U.S. against such errors, Why England Slept was a considerable achievement...
...nations that walk the third road, warned Shen, is the notion that they can preserve peace by placating "the strong and predatory." Thus they may force the U.N. into the same ignominious fate as the League of Nations, which capitulated repeatedly to the prewar Japanese militarists, to Mussolini and Hitler. "The League," said Shen, "was too much in love with the easy doctrine of peace at all costs. It did not hesitate to bring pressure to bear on the victims of aggression to surrender peacefully' so war might be avoided. By so doing, it actually aided and abetted aggression...
...argued lucidly that a neutral, unilaterally disarmed Britain could only encourage Russia's "more aggressive elements" and "prove profoundly dangerous for world peace." To the left-wing slogan "No War over Berlin," Gaitskell replied forcefully that World War II had broken one year after Neville Chamberlain shrugged off Hitler's rape of Czechoslovakia-"a small nation that didn't matter very much...