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...generals is Hasso von Manteuffel, who in 1944 led the Fifth Panzer Army, one of the two spearheads of the battle. Manteuffel, 72, now lives in quiet retirement near Munich. He told Cate how he and other officers under Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander in Chief West, protested that Hitler had set an impossible timetable by ordering a two-day rush to the Meuse, 50 miles distant. "Das ist unwiderruflich [This is irrevocable]," said General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations at supreme headquarters, slamming his fist on a conference table. Manteuffel, a dedicated bridge player, suggested that Hitler...
Hitler promised 300,000 troops for the attack and strong Luftwaffe support. Manteuffel recalls that during one seven-hour meeting, Hitler asked Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring how many planes he could provide. "Three thousand," Göring said instantly. "You know Göring," Hitler said to Manteuffel. "I think we shall have 2,000." The actual count was about...
...toward the Siegfried Line, von Rundstedt was reinstated. When Hitler launched his last, convulsive counterstroke in the Ardennes-the Battle of the Bulge-the Allied generals assumed that von Rundstedt was masterminding the job. Actually, it was conceived and timed by Adolf Hitler, and mainly executed by Model, von Manteuffel and the SS's tough-guy General Sepp Dietrich. Von Rundstedt knew in advance that it would fail; by then a figurehead, he said, "My only prerogative was to change the guard at the gate." Six days before V-E day, the British captured...
Spokesman for this trigger-happy little group is General Kurt von Manteuffel, an excellent soldier who led the Ardennes break-through in December, 1944. He has been spending a lot of time with Dr. Adenauer, who apparently asked for the advice of the Brotherhood on possible rearming. The reason advanced by the unemployed officers is simple: Germany needs an army to hold off the Russians. Some top Allied military men--Marshal Montgomery and General Tassigny among them--have given tacit approval to this theory...
...discussions with Field Marshal von Kleist (who conducted the retreat from Russia) and a dozen others. They all had bitter recollections-Hitler's disregard of their advice; their success in carrying out impossible orders, only to be supplanted afterwards; the constant surveillance of the Gestapo. General von Manteuffel, an army commander at 47, told how Hitler would intoxicate himself with figures and quantities...
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