Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australia, 62-year-old Lieut. General Walter Krueger assumed command of the newly created Sixth Army under 63-year-old General Douglas MacArthur. Prussian-born General Krueger, whose passion is military strategy, boosted his reputation in the 1941 maneuvers when his Third Army (whose command he relinquished recently) roundly trounced Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second Army. His chief of staff at that time: Dwight Eisenhower...
Gustav Siegfried Eins is a "secret" radio station which supposedly speaks for some of the Wehrmacht's Prussian commanders. Apparently immune from the Gestapo and possibly beyond its reach, the station persistently criticizes Adolf Hitler's conduct of the war and gives the impression that Hitler and his Junkers are fighting each other for control of the Army...
Crosswords. Something was certainly brewing in Germany and in the German Army. There were many indications that the Wehrmacht's Prussian aristocracy was fed up with Hitler intuition and Gestapo intrusion. But there were striking inconsistencies in the stories from Germany-the same kind of inconsistencies which have marked such reports since 1940. Example: a commonly accepted story has been that Haider & Co. fell out with Hitler over the Russian campaign and urged him to withdraw while there still was time. Yet Gustav Siegfried Eins, reporting Haider's dismissal, said the immediate reason was that last autumn...
...cher was 73 at the Battle of Waterloo, and although his horse had fallen on him and saved him from death at the hands of charging French cavalry two days before at the Battle of Ligny, his determination and activity alone forced the Prussian Corps through the deep mud from Wavre to the relief of Wellington, who must otherwise have been annihilated by Napoleon. This was contrary to the counsel of his brilliant, and far younger, chief of staff, Gneisenau, who urged immediate withdrawal toward Germany...
...Namely: Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, recently put over all France, 66; Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Prussian who helped conquer Poland, Paris, the North Caucasus, 61; Field Marshal Siegmund List, who led the Balkan campaign, 62; Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, who commands the northern front in Russia...