Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, it was a time of anguish. He must get the 1st and 9th Submarine Flotillas away from Brest, the 2nd and 10th from Lorient, the 6th and 7th from St. Nazaire. But where could he send them? The only other Biscay bases were La Pallice and Bordeaux, each with facilities for only one flotilla, which already crowded the pens. Farther north were Bergen and Trondheim, with berths for a single flotilla apiece. But the Allied navies patrolled the Atlantic looking for U-boats on the escape routes and the Mediterranean was an Allied lake, closed...
...name was Hans David Ludwig Yorck and the date was Dec. 30, 1812. Prussia was an ally of Napoleon at the time. The treasonable document he signed became known as the Convention of Tauroggen after Prussia turned against the Corsican. With the Russian general sat a young Prussian aide, Karl von Clausewitz, author later on of the world's most famous book of military theory, On War. With Yorck sat a Major von Seydlitz. At first, there was talk of court-martial for Yorck, but when Prussia's War of Liberation against Napoleon began, he became a national...
...embodied their great tradition and their desperate dilemma was the man who indicted Yorck von Wartenburg and his seven gallows-mates for treason against the Third Reich and conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler-Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt...
...against the Nazis? Three months ago Allied intelligence officers had heard reports of a Wehrmacht coup in the making. Rumors linked Rundstedt's name with men like Finance Wizard Hjalmar Schacht, onetime Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath, Baron von Weizsacker, Ambassador to the Vatican, former Oberbürgermeister Karl Goerdeler of Leipzig and numerous less well-known diplomatic, industrial and old-time Government figures...
Adolf Hitler's name was prominent-said radio reports-on leaflets secretly distributed throughout Germany. They offered ten marks (40?) for Hitler's capture, were signed Karl Goerdeler (see FOREIGN NEWS)-the fugitive mayor of Leipzig, on whose head after the recent anti-Nazi bomb plot the Gestapo set a price of 1,000,000 marks...