Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking back over his own 33 Army years, the nation's almost-forgotten soldier was content last week that the U.S. had finally come to recognize the importance of the Chief of Staff's job ("the old Prussian military 'brain trust' system"). Looking ahead, he had some tart advice for the American people...
...second front was around the corner and that, once the corner was turned, the Germans would be smashed in a matter of days; the German transportation system had already collapsed, and was, of course, the reason for Hitler's backing out of Russia; the German Army, particularly its Prussian core, was about to "pull a Badoglio," and throw Hitler to the wolves...
...photographs were taken by Sir Richard Wallace in Paris during the 1871 struggle between the Paris Commune and the army sent against the city by the anti-republican National Assembly government at Versailles at the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian war, Sir Richard was an art connoisseur who made a study of the then new art of photography and his pictures of the ruins of Paris were unique. The photographs were in Sir Richard's town house in Paris until acquired by Mr. Spaulding...
...Prussian military science made one-front war an axiom. Otto von Bismarck never deviated from the axiom and thereby gained an empire. Wilhelm II disregarded it and thereby lost the empire. Adolf Hitler based his strategy on it. Now, fretting over the map of beleaguered Europe, the Führer could see how completely his plans for one-front war had been thwarted...
...imponderables. They had miscalculated and might still be miscalculating Russian strength. They had overestimated their own air power, had not foreseen the emergence of British-American air power. They had been caught short by their weaknesses in southern Europe. Adolf Hitler might well ponder the words of Prussian Karl von Clausewitz, father of modern strategy...