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...also their greatest talent. One of the smaller of Europe's peoples, they never had notions of grandeur, always realized that their role is to react rather than to act: to adjust themselves to conditions not of their making-and to survive. Unlike their next-door Slav neighbors, the Poles, the Czechs never believed in having more than one superior enemy at a time, never dreamed of going down in a romantic blaze of glory. Their national history is one long, continued search for allies. To them, foreign policy is not an appendix but the core of national policy...
These men and these weapons thrice beat Manstein: at Stalingrad, Kursk, Zhitomir. But, thrice beaten, he still failed to understand the lesson. For understanding meant loss of hope and faith: the Slav commoner had negated the Junkers' wondrous Blitzkrieg...
Junker's Life. In this dark hour of defeat by the despised Slav, Fritz Erich von Manstein must have longed to shut his eyes to the dreary, hostile scene and think of friendly Ostelbien: of the small estate of impoverished Prussian Artillery General von Lewinski, whose tenth child he was; of the Castle of Colonel Baron Georg von Manstein, who adopted Erich von Lewinski when his father died...
...Hitler's favors since 1938, one of a small handful of governments to recognize Mussolini's bogus Fascist Republic last September, the men of Budapest had guessed wrong too often. From Moscow came clear hints that even Rumania might fare better in the settlements than anti-Slav, anti-Communist Hungary. To the Kremlin, Rumania under a changed regime (and minus Bessarabia) might yet become a friend, worthy to receive Transylvania; Budapest would remain the center of anti-Russian plots, a handy spearhead for any future German Drang nach Osten. It would take a mighty swing inside Hungary...
Tough Non-Slav. The laurels went to an obscure Armenian, Ivan Christoforo-vich Bagramian. Army files in Moscow held little but Bagramian's dry record; Army men knew little of this Armenian, save that he was the only non-Slav to command a front...