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...Rundstedt has been, and still is, short in one all-important defense. Taking a calculated risk, the German High Command has sent most of its air power to the Russian and Egyptian fronts. Rundstedt was reported last week to have had only 300 fighter planes and 200 bombers to deal with the Dieppe raid. Some of these he had to call down from Holland...
...Rundstedt's biggest problem is how to concentrate his forces-particularly his Panzer forces with their heavy firepower-at any section of a 700-mile coastline, any day, any night. He has three Panzer divisions, and that is not enough to cover the entire coast against a major attack anywhere. But Panzers have mobility, and Rundstedt has placed them where they can use it. One of them is probably stationed near Rennes, for a quick dash up the roads to any threatened point in the Brest-St.-Malo-Cherbourg sector. Another is stationed near Amiens, has the Havre-Dieppe...
Made to Pattern. For administering his vastly complicated domain, with its endless problems of supply, intelligence, defense against air raids and life among the unpredictable conquered, Gerd von Rundstedt was 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...
...last vintage, Rundstedt is among the best. He was born, as one should be, in Prussia, to a family which for generations had glorified the sword and service to the Fatherland, and nothing else. His father was an aristocrat and a general. So would...
...Gerd von Rundstedt got his first military training in swank cadet schools, where stiff-backed officers and crop-headed noncoms broke young men and rebuilt them to the Army pattern. He was a captain and company commander when World War I began, went to the front with a crack infantry regiment. He distinguished himself. With his background and training he could not have done anything else. But he also showed a fine soldier's brain, and when the war ended he was chief of staff of an army corps, a higher leap than any other German general now fighting...