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...R.A.F. went after the Baltic port of Liibeck one night in March 1942 because Lübeck was a vital link on the Wehrmacht supply line to Russia. It was no part of the R.A.F. plan that the fire bombs rained down on Lübeck's beautiful 13th Century Marienkirche, but fire melted the church's great bell, gutted the interior. Repair crews got a surprise: whitewash had peeled from the walls, revealing patches of vividly colored frescoes beneath...
...German" chaplain is a preachy bore who loves Beethoven and quotes Goethe, thrills to the "knightly shimmer" of a dashing captain headed for certain death at Stalingrad. But if Hitler's Germany had had the same ratio of soul-searching Hamlets as Unquiet Night, the Fiihrer's Wehrmacht would have been reduced to a hard core of about a platoon...
...forlornly, dressed in patched pants of dark Soviet cloth and carrying light wooden boxes and flimsy suitcases. Among them was Oscar Baehr, a husky, 25-year-old, tawny-haired farm boy. As he was driven to the village where his parents have a prosperous farm, he recalled the great Wehrmacht retreat from Russia in 1944 (when he was only 18), then the Soviet P.W. camp at Grozny in the Caucasus, next Siberia, and finally Kiev, where month after month he cracked rocks with other P.W.s and some Ukrainian women. ("If we got caught talking to the women, they simply disappeared...
...Danish frontier in the British zone for firing. The 4th will not find any area in Germany large enough for its divisional maneuvers. One of the emerging facts of military history is that Hitler's generals managed to train more than 100 divisions of his Wehrmacht without being able to maneuver a unit larger than a regiment. Says General Thomas Handy, boss, under Eisenhower, of the European Command (EUCOM): "I guess...
...chief of staff), and like George Marshall. Graduating from West Point too late for World War I, Wedemeyer in 1936 was sent to study blitzkrieg tactics at the German War College in Berlin. The experience came in handy in World War II. His firsthand knowledge of the new Wehrmacht (before Pearl Harbor, he got a long letter from his old classroom instructor, Colonel General Alfred Jodl, explaining the Nazi breakthrough in France) made him a key planner in both the Mediterranean and Normandy campaigns, boosted him from lieutenant colonel to major general in two years. In 1944, when "Vinegar...