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...invasion of England, bristles with protective armament. If a handful of men could thus dare the Nazi guns, perhaps something was rotten in all Hitler's coastal defenses. Certainly the defenses of Boulogne were not raid-proof. Shortly after the raid, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, lately named as commander of all German forces in western Europe, ordered the arrest of several Nazis, jailed 150 Frenchmen suspected of having given assistance to the British...
...brewing today in Western Europe. Perhaps Hitler himself is planning a surprise drive to the West (see p. 23. Perhaps Hitler fears an Anglo-American attempt to set up a second front in the West. News came last week that Germany's brilliant Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, hero of the Nazi drive into the Ukraine, had been shifted to the Western Front, whether for offense or defense, and placed in command of Germany's coastal forces from Norway's far North Cape to Hendaye on the Spanish border...
...whole German battle fleet, now a formidable weapon, is assembled between the Hook of Holland and Trondheim, Norway; 2) the British claim (probably extravagantly) that half the fighter strength of the Luftwaffe is drawn up near the invasion coast; 3) Germany's best Field Marshal, Gerd von Rundstedt, has been sent to France; 4) Petain is out and Laval and his Anglophobes are in; 5) British experts say that Germany has been building gliders and transports all winter long. Perhaps these things had no relation to each other; but perhaps they did. Hitler might...
Back of the line Russia had some of her best military brains at work. So had Germany. Adolf Hitler had pigeon-holed his intuition and called back his Marshals. Walther von Brauchitsch was in conference with him and ready to go back into service. So were Bock, Rundstedt and desert-fighter Erwin Rommel, called home from Africa to confer on the synchronization of Germany's Russian and Near Eastern drives. While the new battles were planned, the old battle went on. And all along the front, in windrows, lay the sightless dead...
...More recently, since the failure of his Russian designs, Hitler had proposed a turnabout invasion of Britain. This had been opposed by all his top commanders, all proud veterans of Germany's aristocratic military caste-Field Marshals von Brauchitsch, Fedor von Bock, Ritter Wilhelm von Leeb, Gerd von Rundstedt. They had now been dismissed or had "resigned" or were "gravely ill." The self-proclaimed Oberste Befehlshaber was left to carry on with the support of such latecomers to the military aristocracy as Chief of Operations General Alfred Jodl, Inspector General of the Air Force General Erhard Milch...