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...General Alfred Jodl (at Reims): "The German people and armed forces .... have achieved and suffered more than perhaps any people in the world." ¶ General Franz Boehme: "We are unbeaten...
...that plain red building in Reims, Supreme Commander Eisenhower had established advanced headquarters. To it came the German negotiators, headed by Colonel General Alfred Jodl, last chief of staff of the dissolving German Army, and General Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg, last commander in chief of the dissolved German Navy...
...signing, Jodl had spoken the last words for Germany. Ramrod-stiff, in a voice that choked and almost broke he said...
Collaboration. Heinrich Himmler seems, or seemed until recently, to be getting along well with the three generals who seem to be running the German war machine: Wilhelm Keitel, Heinz Guderian and Alfred Jodl. Gerd von Rundstedt, the genius who mounted the December offensive in the west, is apparently still under suspicion as a disdainful Junker and has little to say about overall policy...
When, on the wrinkled steppe before Stalingrad, the Wehrmacht met defeat, Hitler did not turn for help to one of his Nazi henchmen-Jodl, List, Guderian; he turned to Junker von Manstein. In December 1942, in the marshlands hugging the Caspian Sea, Manstein met in combat the Russian ex-private, Rodion Malinovsky. Manstein's first punch-with massed tanks-sent the Russian reeling back. But soon Malinovsky received help, counterattacked, made the marshes a cemetery for Manstein's men, tanks, hopes...