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...SCHIRACH WERE FAITHFUL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIALS. ALL OF THESE GENTLEMEN DID THEIR DUTY AS THEY SAW IT AND THEIR MISFORTUNE LAY MERELY IN BEING ON THE LOSING SIDE ... A COMMITTEE OF PROMINENT AMERICANS HAS BEEN FORMED TO WORK FOR THE RELEASE OF THESE MEN AS WELL AS FOR FIELD MARSHALS MANNSTEIN, LIST, KESSELRING, MAJOR GENERAL OTTO ERNST REMER AND MANY OTHERS. IN FAIRNESS TO THE APPEALS NOW IN PROGRESS, WE ASK THAT YOU REPRESENT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY...
...Bonn government (many Germans also have misgivings), and by the other partners in the proposed European Army-France, Italy and Benelux. To win their approval, Blank is making sure that on the new German army rolls there will be none of the old familiar names-Guderian, Kesselring, von Rundstedt, Mannstein. "This army," said a retired German officer, "will not be commanded by anyone you have read about in the papers...
Winston Churchill, with a sportsman's gesture, kicked in $100 for the defense of an old enemy: German Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein. The money, along with other contributions, will be used to hire a British lawyer for Mannstein at his war crimes trial Aug. 9. Meanwhile, Churchill spent a few quiet days entertaining Bernard Baruch, an old crony and his recent host...
...north prong aimed at the Caucasus and perhaps a central prong from Greece and the Aegean Islands through Turkey. If so, the capture of Tobruk would be just an opening puncture for Rommel, as the capture of Kerch had been an opening puncture for Field Marshal Dieter Wilhelm von Mannstein. Or it might be merely an attack to test the British strength and prevent the diversion of British units to Syria...
...Crimea, then. Field Marshal Dieter Wilhelm von Mannstein, Junker-born apostle of the swift and crushing thrust, slogged east toward Kerch. Before his power drive the Russians fell back toward the end of the Crimea, and at week's end were fighting in Kerch. With water at their backs they were in a tough spot, but so since last October had been the great naval base at Sevastopol. And Sevastopol was still in Russian hands...
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