Word: wedel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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RICHARD C. WEDEL Durand...
Reporter-in-Chief. The man who two years ago sold the idea of soldier-correspondents to the Führer is their Berlin commander: burly, affable Lieut. Colonel Hasso von Wedel. No bureaucratic propaganda official is Colonel von Wedel. A brilliant officer, he has spent 25 of his 41 years in the German Army...
Born in Pomerania, son of an Army officer, Wedel went to cadet school at 15, was the youngest lieutenant to volunteer for service at the front in World War I. He went through the war unscratched, was kept as a member of Germany's elite postwar General Staff. Almost as corpulent as Göring (from years spent sitting behind a desk at headquarters), Wedel has the same talent for organization. Like Göring, he drinks vast quantities of beer, eats gargantuan meals...
...cover Germany's surprise attack on Norway two months ago, Wedel sent one company of his PK men: 50 correspondents, 100 technicians. In charge went young Korvetten Kapitän Hahn. Aboard the German cruiser Blücher, when Norwegian shore batteries sent her down in the narrow waters of Oslo Fjord, Captain Hahn took the only films of a naval engagement shot thus far in World War II. Forced to swim, he got ashore with his pictures intact, but ran into a squad of Norwegian soldiers and destroyed the films to keep them from being captured...
...leader on the Western Front is a blond, blue-eyed, Westphalian farmer's son, Captain Albert Kost. No career officer like Colonel von Wedel, he has been a Nazi politician for many years, at 45 is a member of Hitler's submissive Reichstag. Taciturn, quiet, heavy-featured, Captain Kost is an ardent Catholic with five children...