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General Motors strike leaders showed no sign of losing heart: at a workers' rally they talked of "shock troops," "panzer divisions," "the biggest pillbox." Other strikes were threatened in the nationwide Bell Telephone System, in New York City Western Union offices...
...Germany, Canada's first big war crimes trial was on. In a paneled room in the onetime naval barracks at Aurich (18 miles northwest of Emden), impassive SS Major General Kurt ("Panzer") Meyer, 33, stood trial for his life before a Canadian military court. To five charges against him he answered a crisp nein...
Reuther: I will tell you this, gentlemen, if it goes much longer you make it worse. . . . You turned it on. We have some more panzer divisions to roll out. . . . We have not turned on the full steam...
...told his interrogators that in 1938 the Wehrmacht had only 21 divisions, including two Panzer divisions. The Czechs had 45 well-trained divisions behind a fortified belt newer and better than the Maginot Line. Said Halder, he and his colleagues concluded that if war came, the German prospect was "nothing less than catastrophic...
...Nick of Time. Halder decided to strike on the night of Sept. 14. He sent a Panzer division to General von Witzleben at Berlin without arousing suspicion. Just when the coup seemed completely assured of success, London announced the umbrella-toting Prime Minister's impending visit to Hitler's mountain. Halder, shaken by this dramatic evidence of the Führer's political sagacity, called off the plot, thereafter toed the Hitler line. Later, Chamberlain's policy was defended as giving Britain time to prepare. Halder's statement indicated that it was Germany that...