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Under Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, the classic Junker who is generally regarded as Germany's ablest soldier, Field Marshal Walter Model was commanding in the north, and General Hermann Balck in the south. Model was personally decorated by Hitler last summer for stopping the Russians at the Vistula. Balck had shown defensive ability in the Ukraine, and after the Allied invasion of southern France he succeeded in bringing the remnants of his Panzer corps back to Germany. Now, wherever possible, Model and Balck are sacrificing substandard troops to save good ones. At sensitive spots they still...
...history was repeating itself. Thirty years before, the Russians had driven into the bleak, lake-studded land of many a Junker overlord and his cannon-fodder peasant. In August 1914, General Paul Rennenkampf's Russian army attacked from the east, General Alexander Samsonov from the south. The Germans were routed in the first battle...
...Junker but a schoolteacher's son, Erwin Rommel fought with distinction in World War I, emerged into the chaos of postwar Germany a well decorated captain. Lost, he found Hitler. He became the ranting Führer's bodyguard, military adviser and top-drawer hooligan. When Hitler rang up the curtain on World War II Erwin Rommel was a colonel, commanded an 55 division that fought in the battle of Poland's Vistula bend. By the time France was invaded, Rommel was a major general; he led the 7th Armored Division in the breakthrough at Maubeuge...
...Junkerdom. It started in Bavaria. After World War I, German nationalists flocked together in societies, some of them secret like the C Organization, some studiedly innocent like the German Wrestling Bund or the German Social Employment Society. The link was the shadowy Feme, hidden wherever arms were hidden-on Junker estates in East Prussia and Silesia, and in Bavaria. Protection was supplied by the unreconciled in the Republic's Government, by discontented ex-officers in the Black Reichswehr and the Free Corps. From these came many an early Nazi...
...this formula with bayonet sharpness: 1) the plan amounted to a partition of Germany-and the political and economic consequences for Europe might not be so apparent to Washington as they were to London and Moscow; 2) Russia's slice of occupied Germany would consist chiefly of the Junker and a large docile peasant population-manpower for rebuilding Russia's destroyed cities. Britain would receive the restless proletarian population of the ports and the industrial Ruhr and Rhine...