Word: panzers
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...Nazi International, with contacts in France, Britain, Spain and Argentina. German firms looking for business in Madrid were told to see Otto Skorzeny, the scar-faced ex-SS officer who recaptured Mussolini in 1943. In Buenos Aires the man to see was Hans Ulrich Rudel, the one-legged Panzer knacker (tankbuster) now attached to Dictator Perón's army-training staff, who last week was given special leave to fly to Germany for a "whirlwind tour of speeches" on behalf...
...ablest of all German generals," British Military Historian Liddell Hart called him. "Our finest operational brain," said Panzer General Heinz Guderian, an exacting judge. Erich von Manstein charted the daring Panzer thrust through the Ardennes that split the Allied armies and defeated France, and was assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March...
...London, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck opened an exhibition of papers belonging to Panzer General Erwin Rommel, his late World War II opponent in the western desert. Rommel, said Sir Claude, "was a man to be respected because he was a very good soldier, not because he gave us a lot of trouble...
...army. Today its chief, Dr. Wilhelm Voss, onetime head of the Wehrmacht's Central Armaments Supply Board, sits in the office of the Minister of War & Marine (the minister: Naguib himself), bossing Egypt's Central Planning Board. Voss's men, recruited from former SS leaders, Panzer commanders and naval captains, permeate Egypt's entire military establishment-training, advising and teaching. Off duty, they keep to themselves, stay out of bars and mischief. One Egyptian newsman who asked too-pointed questions about their functions and identities was clapped into jail...
...ring and Goebbels feared him as much as did the generals. After the assassination attempt in 1944 (which Guderian still deplores as unsoldierly and un-Christian), only complete sycophants could hold their jobs. But there was one exception: Guderian. He was called back twice, once to rebuild the Panzer armies and set up the Eastern defenses, again to hold the biggest job of all: chief of the general staff...