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...Henry F. Gerecke, 68, Lutheran minister and longtime Protestant chaplain to several penal institutions who served as a chaplain at the Nürnberg war crimes trials after World War II, won the affection and trust of several high-ranking Nazi prisoners (among them: Julius Streicher, General Alfred Jodl, Dr. Hans Frank), prayed at the execution of six of the convicted and was disappointed when Hermann Göring, who he thought had made a '"sincere" return to religion, preferred a cyanide of potassium capsule to his final ministrations; of a heart attack; in Chester...
...interception crew heard and taped the first part of the message: "Les sang-lots longs des violons de I'automne [The long sobs of autumn's violins].'' Meyer immediately telephoned Rommel's and Von Rundstedfs headquarters and tele-typed the message to General Alfred Jodl, Hitler's chief of staff at Berchtesgaden. Jodl did nothing, on the assumption that Rundstedt. overall commander in the west, had sounded the alert. Rundstedt did nothing on the assumption that Rommel was alerted. Either Rommel's mind was on the grey suede shoes, or. as Author Ryan...
...previous Allied landings had taken place in fair weather. The 124 planes of the 26th fighter wing stationed near the coast were pulled back on June 5. The only daylight action of the Luftwaffe on D-day was one two-plane air strike. For twelve hours, Jodl refused to release two Panzer divisions that might have been thrown in, and feared to interrupt Hitler's pill-drugged sleep with news of the invasion until the official Allied communique. Wakened in the forenoon of June 6, Hitler ranted, as always, at his generals, and clung to the illusion that...
Thus, in apathetic silence, sovereignty was restored to defeated Germany, nearly ten years, to the day, after Colonel General Alfred Jodl stalked into a red-brick schoolhouse in Reims to surrender to the Allies. Ten years ago, in an atmosphere almost forgotten-on a day when millions in arms felt a sudden release from jeopardy, and the Red army choir sang Tip-perary-Germany was dismembered, demoralized and devastated. Last week West Germany was dynamically prosperous and once again the world's third largest trading nation. It had been restored to health by billions...
...Wedemeyer in 1936 was sent to study blitzkrieg tactics at the German War College in Berlin. The experience came in handy in World War II. His firsthand knowledge of the new Wehrmacht (before Pearl Harbor, he got a long letter from his old classroom instructor, Colonel General Alfred Jodl, explaining the Nazi breakthrough in France) made him a key planner in both the Mediterranean and Normandy campaigns, boosted him from lieutenant colonel to major general in two years. In 1944, when "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell was recalled, he took over command of all U.S. forces in China. The youngest...