Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Manner of Man? Guderian's appointment to replace bumbling, Nazified Colonel General Kurt Zeitzler surprised military observers in the Allied capitals (and perhaps in Germany as well). The choice raised puzzling questions. Why did an Army everywhere in retreat need a tank specialist as its top planner? Was Guderian to be the strong man for the Army, or a figurehead for Hitler himself? Was his main job military (to revise Army strategy) or political (to hold the lid down during a ruthless purge of "unreliable" elements)? Was Guderian himself politically reliable, as far as the Party was concerned...
...Gates. Germany's visible reaction to this situation was one of unconcealed gloom and alarm. Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar, ace German military commentator, admitted in a somber radio analysis for his people that the enemy was "at the gates" of the Fatherland, that Germany was facing vast attacks on three fronts by Allied forces superior in men and materials. Other spokesmen seemed almost to vie with each other in gloom...
Second Thoughts. Next day a fear began to gnaw. General Kurt Dittmar, No. 1 military commentator, went on the air. "The Atlantic Wall never became an inflexible structure of steel and concrete," he patiently explained. Defense in depth was the Wehrmacht's plan, he added reassuringly. The Volkischer Beobachter shouted: "In this fateful hour, the German nation is rallying around the Fiahrer. . . . Success for the Allies would simply mean the end." The forgetful radio declared that the invasion had come because Moscow wanted...
...balding Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle, veteran air general, but his command, too, is completely under Rundstedt's direction. The Germans unquestionably plan to use their own tough, mobile airborne troops to meet Allied airborne thrusts, and this phase of the campaign will be commanded by Lieut. General Kurt Student, professionally respected paratroop leader who planned and executed the Crete invasion...
...first picture of Dr. Hans Enoch of London, co-discoverer of viviicillin, a cheap, "simplified" form of penicillin, arrived in the U.S. (see cut, /p. 44). Dr. Enoch and his colleague, W. Kurt S. Wal-lersteiner, use suspensions of the pure living penicillin mold for injections. Only a small percentage of the material is active drug, but it has achieved some remarkable cures: e.g., a hemophiliac boy with a ruptured appendix. He recovered without an operation...