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Fraternity Hatred. Roessler, a rightist-imperialist German intellectual who fought in World War I and afterward maintained his dedication to a reasonable Germany, fled to Switzerland in 1934, but not before cementing an anti-Nazi friendship with ten high-ranking comrades in the Wehrmacht. Sharing with them the military fraternity's hatred of Korporal Adolf Hitler, Roessler agreed to serve as an out-of-country transmitter for every bit of intelligence that the ten could sneak out of Germany in the event of war. At the same time, he promised his friends that he would not disclose their identities...
Messages to Moscow. It was Roessler's inside information, according to the authors, that allowed Soviet Marshals Zhukov, Rokossovski and Eremenko to draw the Wehrmacht into the encirclement of Stalingrad and thus turn the tide of the war in the East. Roessler also provided Russian propagandists with information-direct from Hitler's headquarters-that was used over loudspeakers to break the German resistance: "Panzer grenadiers of the 24th, we shall not be south of Voronezh the day after tomorrow as your leaders have assured you. Save your bread, your ammunition and your gasoline. The luckiest will be those...
...Gunner Asch tetralogy, West German Novelist Hans Hellmut Kirst explored the soldier's life in Hitler's Wehrmacht, in which he himself had served twelve years, and found a simple point: a dogface is a dogface, even under the sign of the swastika. Asch was a universal type, a latter-day Good Soldier Schweik, the goof-off who confounds every military system...
...generals who were not. From Berlin, a counterplot by Himmler, designed only to steal the play away from Wolff, threatened to retire Sunrise to the limbo of lost causes. The generals of the various Nazi commands in Italy fought among themselves over the issue of a negotiated peace, and Wehrmacht tanks once even leveled their guns on Wolff's SS headquarters in Bolzano...
...stepped hopelessly from a van in the red brick forecourt of Berlin's Spandau Prison. They were the senior survivors of the 22 Nazis brought to trial for major war crimes at Nürnberg. Their compatriots in crime-among them Luftwaffe Boss Hermann Göring and Wehrmacht Chief Wilhelrn Keitel-had escaped imprisonment by either suicide or the noose...