Word: kleists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...books were bought by Herbert Kleist and F. N. Jones, on trips to New York and Philadelphia as well as in the second hand shops of Boston...
Numbers v. Reality. Liddell Hart gives fragments of his discussions with Field Marshal von Kleist (who conducted the retreat from Russia) and a dozen others. They all had bitter recollections-Hitler's disregard of their advice; their success in carrying out impossible orders, only to be supplanted afterwards; the constant surveillance of the Gestapo. General von Manteuffel, an army commander at 47, told how Hitler would intoxicate himself with figures and quantities...
Three men, named Kleist, Kimball, and Newman, could easily take the 100, 220, 120 highs, 220 lows, high jump, and broad jump among them today. Newman won the indoor Heptagonal sprint this winter, and Kleist has been hitting 23-plus and 6-3 in the broad jump and high jump...
...Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, 63, who had commanded the First German Tank Army in the Caucasus. He was caught in Mitterfels by two doughboys of the U.S. 26th Division. The captors found 25 traveling bags packed for flight, a quantity of narcotics and hypodermic syringes, but apparently there was no food in the house. Shaking like a leaf, Kleist accepted some U.S. white bread...
Until recently Colonel General von Kleist held back ten armored divisions, probably in the Minsk-Brest-Litovsk area; by now he has probably had to throw them against the Russian avalanche. In France, in addition to the 30-odd coastal-defense divisions, twelve divisions stand in the rear, supposedly between Amiens and Sedan, waiting to counterattack Allied forces landing in the west. These forces are formidable but they are not true reserves: they cannot be readily spared for duty elsewhere...