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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch is almost as obscure as he is abroad, and for two reasons: 1) Germans are rationed only one hero and his name is Adolf Hitler; 2) Brauchitsch is the typical German Army officer, self-effacing, obedient and personally dull. Only time he ever got himself talked about was last year, when he divorced his first wife to marry young and pretty Charlotte Schmidt, daughter of a Silesian judge. Nevertheless, he possesses the thoroughness, persistence and greatness in his field that have made the Army the highest expression of German efficiency and perhaps...
...Brauchitsch who was responsible for the East Prussian fortifications that were built after 1933 - a complicated system of blockhouses and two heavy fortresses designed to make East Prussia impregnable on the East. When he was in East Prussia, Brauchitsch's chief of staff was General Walter von Reichenau, closest of all the Army officers to the Nazis and to their chief...
...same thing in almost the same words-and marched into the Sudetenland at the head of the German troops. He occupied Bohemia and Moravia last spring, but still the Army was not ready. Last month, as motorized divisions began concentrating in Slovakia, in Silesia and East Prussia, Walther von Brauchitsch said good-by to his pretty wife and flew across the corridor to take personal command of the awaited Polish campaign in his old stamping ground, East Prussia. This time he was ready and the campaign hung...
...Prize that Walther von Brauchitsch had won for Germany was, from a military standpoint, well worth its cost in men and machines. "At almost the precise moment" that England blockaded Germany, as Field Marshal Goring remarked last fortnight, Germany got her hands on Poland's rich coal fields. Poland's production of 36,000,000 tons a year will increase the Reich's coal supply to some 220,000,000 tons-if she can hold the coal-producing Saar into which France was pushing last week. If France takes or cripples the Saar, Germany will be little...
...between the Somme and the Scarpe River. By this move he saved his troops from a second Somme and shortened his line. More important, he gained the opportunity to prepare on virgin ground and far away from hostilities for defensive tactics which his bright young men, notably Colonel Fritz von Lossberg, had evolved for divisions after observing the French use for smaller units...