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...Enemy Army-East," the super-secret intelligence staff that evaluated the reports of a vast network of German agents ranging the Eastern front from Leningrad to the Caucasus. Because his realistic appraisals of Soviet strength clashed with Hitler's wish-thinking, Gehlen often drew the Führer's fire. Once, the story goes, Hitler read a Gehlen paper and exploded angrily: "What fool dug out this nonsense?" But events proved Gehlen's gloomy reports right...
Hero Victor Velten, like Author Kramer a lawyer and translator, despises his Führer, hates war. He loses a cushy occupation job in Paris and his officer's rank when he takes up with an old girl friend who is in the resistance. Shipped to the Russian front, he does nothing more dangerous than guard and kitchen duty, manages to escape handily when the great retreat gets under way. He becomes a chauffeur at headquarters, and he always manages to keep just out of reach of the Russians. At the end he joins a group that deliberately deserts...
...reality, the moral goldbrick constantly leaning against war's back door. We Shall March Again reaches a telling climax as the spokes fall out of the German war machine. Fuzzy-cheeked youngsters try to hold positions that crack divisions could not defend, commanders cannot reach the Führer because he is dillydallying at his own birthday party. But these vivid vignettes cannot quite redeem the novel's major flaw-that its men whine louder than its bullets...
...madman. Hitler had a formidable capacity for divorcing himself from reality. As a youngster, he kept turning out sketches for grand new cities, planned to tear down half of Vienna and, incidentally, to convert its citizens from wine to a soft drink (a feat that the Fŭhrer, even at the height of his power, never accomplished). Sometimes, he meant to become a second Wagner, and once he started picking out an opera score on the piano ("I shall compose the music, and you will write it down," he told Kubizek, and so it went for several days...
...next year I, so that you will always have a wife who is mobile." She urged that bigamy be legalized "as at the end of the Thirty Years' war." But the war did not last 30 years. After performing the last rites at the Führer's funeral pyre in beaten Berlin, Bormann disappeared. His wife died in the Italian Alps a year later. For all their anti-Christian indoctrination, seven of their children have become Roman Catholics. The eldest, Hitler's godson, is training to become a priest...