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...duty and secretly does the same. Unaware of his decision, the heroine decides that he is merely a lightweight, and goes back to her husband. At the fade, while the violins soar among the bomb bursts, the poor misunderstood playboy dies heroically in an attempt to weaken the Wehrmacht's defenses in Normandy...
...Main Prize. The decision to hold back the Ninth Army was made by Ike for military reasons that seemed plausible at the time-and still do. Before Dday, Ike had listed Berlin as his primary military target, a priority made on the assumption that the Wehrmacht would concentrate about the city and defend it to the death. In September 1944, Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery urged "one really powerful and full-blooded thrust toward Berlin" through northern Germany. "Clearly, Berlin is the main prize," Ike answered. He added that a slower, "broad front" advance would better accomplish...
...point out that Berlin itself is no longer a particularly important objective," he wrote. And he left Berlin to the Russian divisions advancing from the East, while his own troops scattered across the north German lowlands and south to the forests of Bavaria to crush the remains of the Wehrmacht...
...grade-school teacher in the Westphalian city of Bielefeld, Henze played the piano at five, took ballet lessons at six. Drafted into the Wehrmacht at 18, he continued his musical education at Heidelberg and Paris, soon decided that "old-style music sounds pale and insufficient." He spent the next 15 years rattling off dozens of chamber works, symphonies, ballets and operas that earned him a name as a one-man revival of German music...
Mein Kampf. A searing documentary of the rise and fall of Hitler's Germany that catalogues in gruesome detail man's organized inhumanity to man. Culled from newspapers, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films and secret police footage...