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...Montgomery did not see eye to eye on all things military, but they agreed that the best of the German generals they faced was Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. The stiff, cold, duty-obsessed old Prussian never joined any plots against Hitler, but he often opposed the Führer's plans and acts, was three times removed from command, and in the end came to despise a man he sometimes called "Corporal Hitler." B. H. Liddell Hart says that von Rundstedt was an abler soldier than Field Marshal von Hindenburg-of World War I-abler even than...
...lieutenant general. His first unsavory taste of politics came in 1932, when he was ordered by Chancellor von Papen to oust the Socialist ministers of Prussia; he obeyed. The ranking general when Hitler shortly came to power, von Rundstedt did nothing to hobble the Führer, acquiesced-however unwillingly-in Hitler's assaults on the officer corps. Six years later, he saw his friend and colleague, Werner von Fritsch, sacked and tried on a trumped-up morality charge. Von Rundstedt protested. By that time he saw that the Nazis' course was leading to war with Britain, which...
...night. After the Allied landing in Normandy and the subsequent breakout, Field Marshal Keitel, Oberkommando chief in Berlin, got von Rundstedt on the telephone and wailed, "What shall we do?" Von Rundstedt snapped, "Make peace, you fools!" Keitel ran to Hitler with the remark, and the Führer wrote von Rundstedt a "nice letter," saying that Field Marshal Günther von Kluge would take his place. Discharged, von Rundstedt nonetheless presided at the "Court of Honor," which ruthlessly drummed out of the German army those officers implicated or suspected in the unsuccessful July 20 attempt on Adolf Hitler...
...flying machine. It was not an entirely new idea. One devised by the Wehrmacht, for example, worked nicely, except that it spun the passenger almost as fast as it spun its rotors, depositing the dizzy victim on the ground in no fit condition to fight for der Führer. Willy devoted most of his postwar resources to exterminating such bugs: he sold his house and car, hocked his radio shop...
...carried mimeographed membership cards, in English and crude German, adorned with swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler. In their headquarters, an abandoned store, police found 4,000 rounds of 22-caliber ammunition, some shotgun shells, 36 knives, a rifle and two air rifles. The group's Führer was 15. Said he: "I have information that Hitler is still alive in Argentina. I am going there to join him when I am 18." Said his mother: "I guess his imagination just ran away with...