Word: oberkommando
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...Germany in the event of war. At the same time, he promised his friends that he would not disclose their identities to any Allied source. The ten-whom the authors refuse to identify even now, supposedly out of fear of neo-Nazi reprisals-were on the staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Army General Staff), and had supplied Roessler with codes, call signs, and the latest-model radio transceiver in the German electronics inventory...
...Allied invasion of Europe. By 1944, says World War II Historian Chester Wilmot (The Struggle for Europe), von Rundstedt had lost the master's touch, and was having to drink himself to sleep at night. After the Allied landing in Normandy and the subsequent breakout, Field Marshal Keitel, Oberkommando chief in Berlin, got von Rundstedt on the telephone and wailed, "What shall we do?" Von Rundstedt snapped, "Make peace, you fools!" Keitel ran to Hitler with the remark, and the Führer wrote von Rundstedt a "nice letter," saying that Field Marshal Günther von Kluge would...
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