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...with 200-300 planes in what the conservative British Air Ministry called a raid "of outstanding success." Another night the heavy bombers swung farther east to Karlsruhe, on the upper Rhine, unloaded 200 or more bomb bays 450 miles from home, on one of the Reich's great locomotive-building centers. Still another night, Bremen, one of the targets of the three 1,000-plane raids of early summer, caught it hot & heavy...
Early one morning three years ago this week the curtains of Adolf Hitler's study in Berlin's huge Reich Chancellery stirred gently in the breeze. Inside, after seven nearly sleepless days of conferences and feverish meditation, the demoniac leader of Germany had reached his decision. A few minutes later, and hundreds of miles away, a German bomber snarled through the grey, drizzling Polish dawn and dropped a missile on the fishing village and air base of Puck. World War II had begun...
...born and raised. Facing him and others of his pattern-Junkers Bock, Leeb, Reichenau-the democratic world can be thankful that by now the mold is probably broken. It is unlikely that Adolf Hitler's politics-ridden machine can ever produce the kind of officer that the Reich, from Moltke to Kaiser Wilhelm, poured forth in dazzling profusion...
When Adolf Hitler was still a mousy plotter, Gerd von Rundstedt was already one of the Reich's first soldiers. Impersonally affable, yet detached and consciously superior, he was not a man to let other officers call him by his first name or use the familiar Du. He was known far & wide, and with vast respect, as der General...
...went back on the Russian front: he had Rundstedt's old southern sector, and this time knifed through and past Rostov. So did Leeb, in his old Leningrad sector. "Der General" went back to harness, too, and der Führer had honored him with one of the Reich's most important but least thankful commands. In France, at the first, it was quiet and there was much building to do. Now there are more invasion barges on the beaches, more gunfire in the night, and the skies are laced with the bright, fiery tracers of antiaircraft...