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...Rundstedt Retreat. Tilburg, 's Hertogenbosch, Breda, Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom were the bolt positions in the German line from the Maas to the Scheldt estuary. All five had fallen this week without much of a fight. Allied airmen reported columns of German transports scuttling north to the rivers...
Perhaps this retreat, a sound strategic move, reflected the return to command on the western front of Germany's No. 1 soldier, chill Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who was apparently back in Hitler's favor. Field Marshal Walter von Model, the previous commander, was now in charge of the northern sector under Rundstedt. Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz commanded the southern...
...Germans were still convinced he was a topnotcher: his arrogance, his color gave him an appeal that other generals of possibly more ability (e.g., Rundstedt, Kesselring) completely lacked. At 52, resoundingly defeated in Africa, Germany's youngest field marshal, he took command of an army group in France...
Against the overwhelming power of the Allied landing in Normandy, Rommel and the German Army were swamped. Historians must still decide whether Rommel was hog-tied by his superior. Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, whether Allied sea and air superiority covered any possible German move, or whether the Desert Fox, for once, was hesitant and bumbling...
...Rundstedt send Field Marshal von Witzleben, Colonel General Erich Hoepner, Major General Helmuth Stieff, Count Yorck von Wartenburg and the others to the gallows because he had no choice? Did he hope to shield other Wehrmacht generals by acting as the grand inquisitor? When known, the answers to these questions will form an interesting page of history. But they do not alter the fact that the Junker and the Nazis are both very close to the end of their respective ropes. Nor the fact that Germany is now a land divided against itself - although still held together by the frame...