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What happened was a breakdown in the German command. Rommel, believing the weather too foul for an invasion, was away in Germany on DDay. The 21st Panzer Division, instead of counterattacking, was fed into a piecemeal defense of Caen. The 12th SS Panzer and the Panzer Lehr Divisions were held in the rear from 0400 to 1600 by command from Hitler himself. Smothered by Allied air attack, they did not get into action until D-plus-one, D-plus-two and D-plus-three...
MARGARET S. LEHR New York City
...edition of the Hitler Youth) and Frauen-bund (Women's League), kept passing the buck to the Lower Saxony state government, which passed it back to Bonn. Last week, after S.R.P.'s show of strength in the election, Bonn's Minister of the Interior, Dr. Robert Lehr, declared: "We are determined to stamp out the fire." Bonn proposed to do the job through a new Federal Constitutional Court, to be set up soon to view constitutional questions, but it probably would be months before any stamping could be done...
Gurgling Florentine. A chunky, irrepressible man with a hair-in-the-eyes resemblance to the movies' late Lew ("Monkeys is the cwaziest people") Lehr, Bruno, 39, started out as a singing gondolier in his native Venice. After four years of that, and a few handsome and encouraging tips, he decided he could do as well or better just singing and entertaining without straining his back in the bargain. During the war he had to give up his orchestra ("Italians were too depressed to enjoy cheerful dance music"), eked out a living by trading on the black market. But since...
...Question. Both curly-haired, 31-year-old Captain William R. Westerfield and 23-year-old Copilot Robert B. Lehr were experienced flyers, and veterans of many a safe Atlantic crossing. Neither had radioed word of any engine trouble. Why had it struck a visible obstacle at an altitude of less than 1,600 feet...