Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel General Heinz Guderian, Chief of Staff of the Wehrmacht and commander on the eastern front, rasped that conditions were "well nigh intolerable...
...Remagen "accident," as Berlin angrily called it, was in sharp contrast with the well-handled withdrawal at Wesel. Resurgent Allied optimists who now predicted the war's end in a few weeks might possibly be right-but in the meantime it was well to remember that the Wehrmacht had been routed and broken last summer in White Russia and in France. It had recovered from both routs...
...tactical way to issue statements and make broadcasts against Hitler in order to disrupt morale within the Reich, and especially in the German army. What Marshal Stalin promised at Yalta was that he would not reinstate these officers in their old jobs at the head of an unpurged Wehrmacht...
...Yalta communiqué to know that the Allies had chosen the place-and probably the time-for the fourth and final ground front: the north German plain. There, perhaps in conjunction with landings from the North Sea, the eastern and western Allies had the same objective: to grind the Wehrmacht between them...
Nazi Futility. The Germans could guess again-what was Zhukov's master plan? Would he try to maneuver the Wehrmacht into a showdown battle to save the capital? Or was he aiming at Berlin's encirclement or seizure as a swift, possibly decisive stroke...