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Word: manteuffel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Defeated | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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