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...absorption in German culture. He believed that the Nazi movement was a troublesome but temporary phenomenon, and was anxious to do what he could to preserve German musical standards. He fancied that in staying in Germany, rather than going into exile, he would find ways, with art as his shield, of opposing the Nazis...
...Frenchmen! At the moment you read this message, I am no longer free. Although I could not be your sword, I tried at least to be your shield. My words and my acts have surprised you occasionally. But you may now know that they hurt me more than they hurt...
...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...
Earlier, when he snuffed out the last enemy resistance in Vilna, Chernyakovsky had won Moscow's maximum victory salute: 24 rounds from 324 guns. The Germans had desperately wanted to hold Vilna, not only to keep open the exit gate from the Baltic areas, but as a shield for East Prussia. They held out longer there under attack than anywhere else in this offensive-but only for five days. Even after the city was completely surrounded, the Germans reinforced their garrison by dropping paratroopers...
...Argentines, who were neither surprised nor greatly disturbed by his militarism and lack of interest in Allied victory. But the State Department's hostile analysis (suppressed for 24 hours, then defiantly given top play in the newspapers) worried them a bit. Protected from foreign criticism by a shield of ironbound censorship, the average Argentine had been left to believe that outsiders loved Argentina. Now, for some undisclosed reason, he was given a glimpse of the truth...