Word: panzers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...withdrawal represents an active personal judgment on the corruption of most of their countrymen. The postwar emigration of many such Germans, says FitzGibbon, represents a permanent loss to Germany. The reproach of the count-me-outers, alas, has not kept the convicted German war criminals-including SS General Kurt ("Panzer") Meyer, found responsible for the murder of Canadian prisoners of war-from becoming heroes to extremist groups in the post-Hitlerian Reich...
...hrer came perilously close to carrying out that objective. Beyond all reason, Stalin had rejected overwhelming evidence that the Nazis were preparing an attack; not even the movement of 4,200,000 troops to Russia's borders convinced him. As a result, Nazi infantry and panzer divisions smashed to the outskirts of Leningrad. The unprepared, disorganized Russians sustained unimaginable losses; 28 of their front-line divisions were obliterated. By the time the Germans were finally stopped, the city was surrounded. Its only open access lay to the northeast, across Lake Ladoga, toward Finland...
...neared the gate, two other Soviet soldiers threateningly waved it back with the barrels of their attack rifles. This was the Milovice-Mlada military reservation, where some 20,000 occupation troops have taken up residence about 25 miles north of Prague. With perhaps 300 tanks in their "panzer park," a supply system that brings in everything from candy bars to jet fuel, and a booming PX, the Russians have plainly moved in for a long stay...
...Order. The man who has upset West Germany's politics is a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), hard-driving Pomeranian who was a World War II Panzer of ficer.* Von Thadden manages to play skillfully on the self-pitying, nationalist feelings of many Germans. In Baden-Württemberg, a region known for its unemotional, middle-of-the-road politics, he conducted a restrained and low-key campaign. His biggest pitch was for law and order, an issue that has become as topical in West Germany as in the U.S. Speaking about student disorders, Von Thadden proposed a simple...