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...plotters certainly had enough rank to excite an OSS agent: the ringleaders were Colonel General Ludwig Beck, onetime German Chief of Staff, and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, onetime mayor of Leipzig. Among the men indirectly involved were Field Marshal von Kluge, the Western Front army chief, and Field Marshal Rommel. (Says Dulles: Beck, Kluge and Rommel subsequently died violent deaths; the ex-mayor was executed...
...Allies had made the Normandy invasion successful. A Wehrmacht plot to kill Adolf Hitler had failed. Field Marshal General GÜnther von Kluge, one of the plotters, knew that he was finished and suspected that Germany...
...last August he suddenly left his headquarters on the Western Front, which he had just taken over from Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. With some of his staff, Kluge drove to a spot on a lonely road near Avranches in northwestern France. There he waited, hour after hour, for a party of U.S. Third Army officers with whom he had secretly arranged to discuss surrender. They did not appear. Fearing betrayal, Kluge hurried back to his headquarters. Awaiting him there was an order to report to Hitler in Berlin. Kluge got into a car, swallowed poison and died...
...correspondent at Berchtesgaden, telling this story last week, also told why Kluge's surrender went wrong. On the day of the rendezvous, Allied air attacks blocked the Third Army party's route to Avranches. By the time the U.S. negotiators arrived, Kluge had gone...
...Expands. Among the western columns were reportedly those of Major General Wade H. Haislip's XV Corps, which had swung in behind the enemy to form the pockets against the Seine where Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's main force had met disaster. To set up that kill, calm, roly-poly General Haislip had managed another impossibility for Patton; he had driven his armor down from Normandy, across to LeMans, up to Alengon -300 miles-in twelve days. Haislip's corps had been the first of Patton's daggers to strike deep. Now Haislip...