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Self-Made General. In common with Hitler, Rommel is no Prussian aristocrat. His father was a schoolteacher in south Germany. Like most German boys who were born in 1891, World War I found him serving in the German Army. He started the war as a humble lieutenant, but his war record was remarkable...
Commanding a detachment of mountain troops in the first battle of Champagne (1915), he captured an important French position, forced a whole French brigade to retire. (Reward: Pour le Mérite, highest Prussian military decoration.) In 1917 Rommel distinguished himself against the Italians at the Isonzo. Recently the Germans, with characteristic tact, reminded their World War II allies by stating, in a radio sketch of his life, that Rommel "captured 9,000 Italian troops in less than half an hour...
Self-Made General. In common with Hitler, Rommel is no Prussian aristocrat. His father was a schoolteacher in south Germany. Like most German boys who were born in 1891, World War I found him serving in the German Army. He started the war as a humble lieutenant, but his war record was remarkable...
Colonel General Halder belongs to a canny group of officers who cottoned to the Nazis when Hitler first came to power. While the Army's Prussian and Junker aristocrats stood aloof, the middle-class opportunists made friends at Brown House, successfully ignored the atrocities there and enjoyed Nazi favor long before the Prussian-ruled Reichswehr capitulated. Now they rate highly with Hitler: Jodl, of the Führer's personal staff; Dietl, who commands the extreme northern front in Russia; List, who probably now commands the central front...
...ultimate political power-holder in Germany today, Smith believes, is the militarized SS. Smith's three possible elements of revolt against it, "in ascending importance: the Communists, the Church and its followers, the conservative Prussian military caste...