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Strategic Conception: Emphasis on compact, hard-hitting mobility; well-balanced for defense but, in the German tradition, built for offense. Each armored division will have twice as many tanks as the German Panzer division of World War II, and immensely more firepower. Set up to operate efficiently as a single force, yet scatter quickly into small units and thus present a poor target for atomic attack. Arms: The U.S. has already stockpiled, mostly in the U.S., the bulk of Germany's first needs, $500 million worth of guns, ammunition, tanks and planes. By 1956, Germans hope to be making...
Died. Colonel General Heinz Guderian, 65, organizer of Hitler's formidable Panzer divisions before World War II and their leader to victory in Poland and France, to defeat within sight of Moscow; of a liver ailment; in Schwangau, West Germany. No avowed Nazi but loyal to Hitler, Heinz Guderian became Wehrmacht chief of staff in 1944, sought in vain to remove Hitler's ban on retreat in the East, was later ousted and, as the war ended, was captured by U.S. forces. Never tried as a war criminal, Old Soldier Guderian pubished his memoirs, Panzer Leader (1952), lived...
...says Bureau Chief Frank White, while traveling in Berlin's Red-occupied East sector, where Germans who are caught violating traffic laws have a way of disappearing. For the heavy-traveling Bonn bureau there are three drivers: Wilhelm Hauner, former chauffeur of a Tiger tank in a German Panzer divi sion ; Heinz Koperski, who served in an 88mm. artillery battery; and Bruno Teschke, who serviced Messerschmitts in Czechoslovakia. All have one thing in common: in World War II each was captured by the Russians and held as a prisoner...
...nearly two weeks after the invasion of Sicily began, actually sent Marshal Rommel to Greece, where he expected the real attack to come. From Sicily to Greece had gone so many torpedo boato that the German patrols were ineffective. All the way across Europe went the ist Panzer Division to meet the expected invasion of Greece. In Sicily itself, Axis forces were shifted from the south, where the attack came, to the north...
...those delicate days when the French were Germany's captives came later, when he openly radioed information on German sea movements to the British on Malta, then sat back to await the fireworks. R.A.F. squadrons sped west from Malta and in minutes destroyed two-thirds of the 15th Panzer Division, destined for Rommel's Afrika Korps. Admiral Darlan got wind of this feat and sent Navarre to Vichy, where he was kept under surveillance. He soon escaped into the underground-thanks to a guard who became his friend (and later became one of his top agents...