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...technical and tactical sessions to synopsis treatment in an appendix. One of the first things that struck Editor Gilbert was the way Hitler's personality dominated the conferences-and the vindictive "meanness" of the man's mind. One example: his treatment of hard-pressed Field Marshal von Kluge, whom he called back from the Eastern Front on July 26, 1943, to inform him that some of his Panzer units would have to be sent to other fronts...
...Kluge: But I can't do anything without Panzer divisions...
...Kluge: What junk...
...Kluge: I did not say that...
...Kluge: No, my Führer, I didn't mean that. I have so little left, just a little bit. What I wanted to indicate was that the situation is hardly tenable any more...