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Died. General Dietrich von Choltitz, 71, a stubby, impassive Junker who was known as the "smasher of cities" for leading blitzkriegs against Rotterdam and Sevastopol, became military chief of Paris in 1944, and was commanded by Hitler to repel the enemy or leave the city "a blackened field of ruins," but chose for the first time to disobey an order and secretly invited the Allies to enter Paris in order to save it, while Hitler angrily demanded, "Is Paris burn ing'?"-the words later made famous by the book and the movie, which will open in the U.S. this...
...exceptionally loyal man to carry out his orders. He was sure he had found that man in General Dietrich von Choltitz. The stubby, impassive Prussian had led the blitzkrieg on Rotterdam, and later, on the Eastern front, had earned the reputation of a "smasher of cities," starting with Sevastopol which he had leveled for Hitler on Hitler's orders. He was the scion of a Prussian family that in three generations as officers had never disobeyed an order. On Aug. 7, 1944, Hitler summoned Von Choltitz, put him in command of the Paris area and told him what...
Last week, in the hope that Russia might unbend to admit Americans to forbidden Soviet cities, among them Vladivostok and Sevastopol, the U.S. decided to allow any Russian tourist who could scrape up the kopecks to enter such once barred territory as the state of Massachusetts, most of Tennessee, and the cities of St. Louis, San Diego and Las Vegas. But the 400-odd Soviet diplomats and journalists in the U.S. will still be confined to the environs of New York City and Washington, D.C., just as their U.S. counterparts are still ordinarily confined to a few Russian cities...
...flood of arms at Hitler's behest, joined the Nazi Party in 1939. During World War II Krupp once more became Germany's chief source of armament, employing more than 160.000 workers. To the growing list of famed Krupp guns it added the "Big Gustav." which shelled Sevastopol, and the versatile "88." the gun most respected by Allied soldiers...
Aristocrat in a Blouse. Apart from a penchant for beards, these two great men are a fascinating study of human contrasts. Tolstoy was a son of the minor aristocracy who entered manhood as an artillery officer (he fought at Sevastopol) and ended it trying to be as much like a peasant as possible. The more he saw of contemporary society, the more he despised it; the more he wrote, the more contemptuous he became of "style" and "art." "The patient's special obsession," he wrote, in a mock case-history of himself, "is that he believes it possible...