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...East Prussian border, General Chernyakhovsky's armies weathered one fierce counterattack after another, waited for the convulsions to die out. Inside the border, the Germans burned farm buildings-the first humiliating scorching of their own earth in this...
More Purge. To sweep clean the ranks of his disaffected generals Adolf Hitler needed an iron broom. He found one in the persons of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Supreme High Command, and Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a Prussian and a Junker. As head of a newly created Military Court of Honor, the two Field Marshals last week reported their first batch of Army sweepings: four of their fellow officers executed; four dead by suicide; two "deserted to the Bolsheviki"; twelve slated for "elimination" from the Army; many more about to be tried...
...bound to the Nazi system as himself. But to the Army they were no symbols of confidence. And so as a new Chief of the Army General Staff, the Führer chose a different sort of man. He was neither an all-out Nazi nor an old-line Prussian officer, but an adroit military technician, with links to both camps. He was Colonel General Heinz Guderian (rhymes with agrarian), the Wehrmacht's No. 1 tank general, the kind of officer (Hitler hoped) who would not break, no matter how sure was defeat, how dismal the amateur attempts...
...there was probably not an old-line officer in the German Army who would feel anything but profound relief if the earth were to open up and swallow Hitler and his entire Nazi heirarchy. The demigods of German militarism, Prussian elite officers, hunting, dueling squires of the broad East Prussian estates, were in eclipse. Theirs was the tradition of always stopping a losing war in time to keep fit for the next...
Guderian was not one of the innermost circle of Prussian officers. He lacked the Junker background. But he was not an outsider. Born at Chelmo on the Vistula, in German Poland, he was an officer's son. He had an eminently correct career as cadet, junior officer, staff officer in World...