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...good Nazis know, the great German Army was betrayed and brought down by a collapsing home front. That could never happen this time; Führer Adolf Hitler had taken measures. Yet this week Hitler was face to face with another of the savage ironies of history: the great German Army was showing signs of caving in. Would the ironbound Nazi home front be betrayed and brought down in 1944 by a collapsing, demoralized Wehrmacht...
...voice went on: ". . . The Führer suffered no injuries except light burns and bruises. . . . He resumed work and, as scheduled, received the Duce. . . . A short time after, Reich Marshal Goring arrived. . . ." Wounded with Hitler were 12 of his military advisers, some of them seriously. That...
...weary Berliners sat down to another dreary dinner. From radio loudspeakers came pleasant music, scheduled to be followed by a useful lecture on the extermination of rats. The lecture never came. Instead a tense voice clipped in: "Today an attempt was made on the life of the Führer with explosives...
With the Führer so far away, German troops in the path of the Russians relied on materials closer to hand. In a feverish hurry they laid extensive minefields, felled trees, dynamited huge craters in the roads, blew up bridges and rail trackage, destroyed any of their own transport which they could not fuel or repair...
...Germans stayed three days finishing up, throwing the scorched bodies into a ditch, burning everything that stood. Then, on June 13, the Führer Regiment of the Reich Division left Oradour-sur-Glane...