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...defend the western invasion coast, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt has three divisions in Holland, four in Belgium, 33 in France (five guarding the south coast, the rest divided between central France and the Channel...
Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, who for a year has been commander of German defenses in western Europe, appeared last week in Sicily. Just before leaving Berlin he said (according to BBC): "I share Marshal Rommel's opinion that the Eighth Army has been chosen to invade the European Continent...
Taciturn, aging Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, placed by Adolf Hitler "at the permanent disposition" of the French Chief of State, last week clapped hundreds of suspect Frenchmen in jail, tightened frontier surveillance and ordered confiscation of radio sets. Rundstedt had something new to contend with: partisan warfare...
...When Rundstedt's armies occupied Vichyfrance, many small "Robin Hood" bands, composed mostly of workers, began operating in the outskirts of large cities. Their underground newspapers issued instructions, coordinated the activities of the different groups. Short, deadly raids and sabotage increased, French partisans, unlike those in Yugoslavia, are largely made up of Communists-who until World War II comprised the third largest party in France. When the Party was banned in 1939 they hid their guns. Recently they have been joined by veteran officers and soldiers and by men marked by the Gestapo. They recognize General Charles de Gaulle...
...Namely: Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, recently put over all France, 66; Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Prussian who helped conquer Poland, Paris, the North Caucasus, 61; Field Marshal Siegmund List, who led the Balkan campaign, 62; Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, who commands the northern front in Russia...