Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surrender, Radio Berlin was still soothing its listeners with a musical program called Let Us Go On Dreaming. After sufficient time had passed for hard-pressed Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels to concoct his explanations, the German radio let out the big, bad news by quoting Allied announcements, adding: "Marshal Badoglio, in the meantime, confirmed the capitulation in a broadcast from Rome, although the King of Italy on Sept. 8 rejected as slander the suggestion that Italy was thinking of capitulation." Later reactions...
...highest estimates, the Germans had consigned some 200,000 men in 18 divisions to Italy. The bulk of these were probably in the north, under the command of that master of delay, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. His first task: to preserve from Italian sabotage and Allied air attack the three railway, routes into upper Italy from Austria and Yugoslavia, the interior railways, roads and airdromes without which the German armies could not long be supported. Rommel's eventual task: to hold the mountains and passes of northern Italy against Allied armies at these gates to the Reich...
Commanding in central and southern Italy was Air Marshal and General Albert Kesselring, who just missed death last week when his headquarters near Rome was bombed. His task was to resist, at a chosen point, the Allied penetration of lower Italy...
...supported Germany. In 1941, reports said, he argued against Hitler's strategy of striking simultaneously at Moscow and the Ukraine. By 1942, Brauchitsch was so much at odds with Hitler's intuitive strategy that he either resigned or was booted into retirement. In 1943, Field Marshal General Walther von Brauchitsch was said to be the candidate of Wehrmacht leaders to replace Hitler, seemed to have excellent chances of becoming the German Badoglio. In late August, Russia's Tass news agency, quoting "Berlin military circles," reported Brauchitsch poisoned. By last week, rumors grew that he was dead...
Still uncaptured last week was the Isle of Capri, in Naples Bay, with a possible prize of doubtful value-Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, former Nazi War Minister and Wehrmacht Chief who mar ried his secretary. He retired to Capri when Hitler took control of the armed forces...