Word: rgen
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...curious vestige of the code of chivalry is the wartime treatment accorded captured officers by nations subscribing to the Geneva Convention. Last week, under this arrangement, General Jürgen von Arnim and Italian Field Marshal Giovanni Messe were settling down in England to sit the war out in comfortable detention...
Germany and Italy lost many valuable officers. The Germans said last week that Field Marshal Rommel, who trained and commanded the Afrika Korps, left Africa last March for medical treatment, is still in Germany. Latest count last week of captured generals was 27, including Colonel General Jürgen von Arnim, who was flown to Britain (see cut), and Italy's Marshal Giovanni Messe...
...Germans gave tangible evidence that they expected an attack soon: according to London reports, a German force of between 80 and 100 heavy torpedo bombers had been shifted from Norway to Sicily. These bombers, commanded by Luftwaffe General Hans Jürgen Stumpff, caused great losses on the Allies' northern convoy route to Murmansk last year, and they could be dangerous to any invasion fleet in the western Mediterranean...
...Generals. The outside world already knew plenty about Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Of Colonel General Jürgen von Arnim, much less was known...
Marshal Rommel reportedly asked for Jürgen von Arnim as coequal commander in Tunisia. The two had worked together on tank tactics through the years. In the early days of the reconstituted Wehrmacht, Arnim commanded the First Panzer Regiment. Later he was shifted back to infantry, which he commanded in Poland. He helped develop the cooperation of tanks and infantry within armored di visions, and in hilly Tunisian terrain where the uses of tanks are limited, his expertness in such liaison will be valuable...