Word: raeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year Churchill does not stand alone. Neither does Runner-up Hitler. Beside and behind Hitler stand the German armed forces, the superbly destructive machine fashioned by Goring, Brauchitsch, Raeder and hundreds of others. Beside and behind Churchill stands a very small man multiplied a millionfold. He is just an Englishman. He was born in the country, or in one of the big cities of the Midlands, or in a grey house in a London suburb. The hands that reared him were hard. His food was tepid or cold: butter and bread, jam and strong black tea, mutton and what...
...hard-faced Vice Admiral Scheer directing the fleet against Jellicoe and Beatty from the bridge of the Friedrich der Grosse. It is of one afternoon in Scapa Flow when the entire German Navy went down, scuttled, to save it from surrender. It is of baton-toting grand Admiral Erich Raeder with a new Nazi Fleet, of pocket battleships and modern submarines, raiding and taking daring risks to cover German landings in Norway. The German naval tradition is all crammed into 42 years...
...blue uniform of the Air Force, his Field Marshal's baton in his right hand; Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German Armed Forces, his cap cocked jauntily on one side; Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch in field grey; Grand Admiral of the Fleet Erich Raeder in a blue naval uniform and upturned stiff collar, also carrying a baton; Deputy Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess in a grey Party uniform; Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the grey uniform of the Foreign Office. As the group reached the clearing, at 3:18, Hitler's personal standard...
...historical drama. Through the dusty windows the correspondents peered, saw Hitler sit down in the chair Foch had used, before a statue of the Marshal. At his right and left sat Göring and Keitel; at one end of the table Brauchitsch and Hess; at the other end Raeder and Ribbentrop. The far side of the table was empty, with four vacant chairs waiting...
...French delegates entered the car, the German leaders rose, stiff with punctilio. Adolf Hitler gave the Nazi salute to each Frenchman in turn. Göring and Raeder raised their batons. Brauchitsch and Keitel gave the military salute, Hess and Ribbentrop the Nazi salute. The Frenchmen returned military salutes. Then Hitler sat down and nodded...