Word: junker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Junker's Errors. But to the Russian Manstein was less a riddle than they were to him. His was the Junker's orderly, one-track mind whose processes could often be foretold-and thwarted. He had learned much since the easy conquests in Poland and France. But, like other Junkers, he still held abiding faith in the tank-airplane team. When it failed-as it did at Kursk -the solution was simple: more tanks, more planes...
Walther von Brauchitsch was the son of Junker General Bernhard von Brauchitsch and socialite Elizabeth von Karstedt. The boy found his way to the Imperial Guards and the fashionable Elizabeth's Guard Grenadiers. Throughout World War I he was on the General Staff; in the postwar token Reichswehr he got a highly essential, secret job: Chief of the Department for Army Expansion...
...took command of the First Army District, became a pillar of conservatism in the East Prussian Junker milieu, a loyal follower of archconservative General Werner von Fritsch. General von Brauchitsch did not oppose the Nazis; he snubbed them as upstarts. But to appease the old-line Army caste, Hitler made him Commander in Chief with Cabinet Minister rank...
...excellent job as the fumbling, humbly heroic Norwegian mayor; so does Dorris Bowdon (Mrs. Nunnally Johnson) as the slayer of a Nazi officer who tries to seduce her. In the story's most controversial role, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as the Nazi commander, looks more like a cold-blooded Junker than like the unmilitary officer described by Steinbeck...