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Over the caked mud of the Kuban region and on thaw-softened battlefields stretching northward for 1,500 miles, the Wehrmacht and the Red Army prepared for the summer struggles...
Marshal Rommel reportedly asked for Jürgen von Arnim as coequal commander in Tunisia. The two had worked together on tank tactics through the years. In the early days of the reconstituted Wehrmacht, Arnim commanded the First Panzer Regiment. Later he was shifted back to infantry, which he commanded in Poland. He helped develop the cooperation of tanks and infantry within armored di visions, and in hilly Tunisian terrain where the uses of tanks are limited, his expertness in such liaison will be valuable...
Once again the Caudillo slapped the faces of his Allied appeasers. Three weeks after U.S. Ambassador Hayes praised the Franco Government (whose Blue Division is fighting with the Wehrmacht against Russia), and publicized the aid that Spain was receiving from the U.S., Axis-Admirer Francisco Franco boasted to the Cortes...
What Adolf Hitler told his people will not live long in their hearts and minds. He spoke again of Germany as the barrier to Bolshevism, said that the front was stabilized after "undeserved" reverses, and actually understated the Wehrmacht's recent resurgence in Russia (see p. 75). He said that the R.A.F. had made Germany a "war zone"; the people knew it, could see it in their blasted cities. He made the fantastic claim that Germany had lost only 542,000 dead in World War II; by a conservative Allied estimate, the Germans have lost four million men killed...
...apparently was to push the Germans back from their springboards before Moscow and the great system of rail, highway and water communications which radiates from the capital. The eventual importance of this drive depended more on German plans than on the immediate scale of the Russian attacks. If the Wehrmacht hoped to strike again at Moscow and central Russia this year, the Red Army's gain and the German loss were enormous. If the Germans had already abandoned such hopes, and intended only to hold some tenable line in central Russia, the successive losses of Rzhev and Vyazma...