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...Krupp company had built up such momentum that in the 15 years of Friedrich Alfred's reign the number of Krupp workers rose to 43,000, the huge steel foundry at Rheinhausen was built, and all high-quality steel plates in Germany came to be called Krupp-Panzer. Four years after his death in 1902. Friedrich Alfred's daughter and only child. Bertha, married a Prussian counselor to the Vatican named Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach.* Before he left Villa Hügel on the day after the wedding, Kaiser Wilhelm II issued an imperial edict giving Gustav...
With the general's pretty daughter, the driver is more Panzer than Panza. Defeat puts the general behind bars, and his daughter and the driver in business. They start out as bootleggers, save enough to reopen a bombed-out manufacturing plant where they turn steel helmets into saucepans. Within a year they are beating plowshares back into steel helmets. The author's debatable but haunting notion that history may be repeating itself in postwar Germany is enhanced when the general is released and delivers an impassioned blood-and-iron speech at a reunion of his ex-comrades-inarms...
...crowd was still nervous and trigger-happy, and newcomers were astonished at how many hands would come out of pockets clutching hand grenades when the cry "Panzer" went up, as a T-34 rumbled into a street, or when a few shots hammered through the air from no one knew where...
...circumvent this final act of Nazi nihilism. The 50 volumes of its proceedings (about 24,000 pages) are more painful reading than most can bear, even today, but in them, far more than in the memoirs of statesmen and generals or the official regimental histories and the reminiscences of Panzer generals, are embedded the true nature of Naziism and the cause of World War II. Of the many valuable historical works that have drawn on these sources in recent years the latest is Edward Crankshaw's Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny, a chillingly felt, warmly told, and concise study...
Died. Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, 73, German World War II tank commander, exponent and early practitioner of the blitzkrieg; of circulatory difficulties; in a Russian prison camp. Product of the Prussian military caste, Von Kleist contributed decisively to France's swift collapse by sending his Panzer divisions racing around the northern end of the Maginot Line. In 1945 he surrendered to two American soldiers (to avoid being captured "in the presence of common, retreating German soldiers"), was sentenced to 15 years as a war criminal by the Yugoslavs, who then turned him over to the Russians...