World War: EASTERN THEATER: Second Wind, Third Week

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Wilhelm Keitel was not an easy man last week. Uneasy friend of Adolf Hitler, uneasy advocate of the great Russian adventure, the Chief of the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces had plenty of worries.

His Armies had had successes which, according to the fustian of the Führer, "baffled the imagination." Yet this crucial Blitz was not quite on schedule; the Russians were not easy to demoralize and not cheap to beat. And every conqueror since the Tartars had broken his teeth on the Russian bite (see p. 20). He, his...

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