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After seven days of fighting, the German High Command was convinced its armies had defeated Russia's. The German High Command has, to most of the world's misfortune, not yet been wrong...
...second week began, the German High Command released its long-promised catalogue of triumphs. Having built up a record of unswerving veracity as to geographical gains in six previous campaigns, the German official communiques were hard to disbelieve...
...Communiques were not, however, like any previous High Command announcement. They came from Adolf Hitler's headquarters at the front and were obviously written by his fine, un-Italian hand. They were not only half political but full of bombast and they tried to demonstrate that the Russians had planned to pour their troops and their Bolshevism into Germany: "It is likely that, at the last minute, Middle Europe was spared an invasion, the consequences of which cannot be conceived. The German people truly are duty bound to give deepest thanks to its brave soldiers." German figures of losses...
...Russian-Polish war, Timoshenko spent several years at Russian schools of war in special classes for soldiers who, like himself, were experienced but had never studied military science. In the early '30s he traveled abroad, studying "capitalistic" armies, and when Joseph Stalin began to purge the Soviet command, Timoshenko rose rapidly...
Still later it became known that immediately on landing the General had taken command of the island's sympathetic police, had bloodlessly arrested a pro-Vichy Government clique of 40 Tahitians (mostly judges, lawyers and doctors trying to safeguard their Government pensions), had removed them to a soft-aired concentration camp. By so doing, the General had removed resistance to a Tahitian plebiscite of last September, when the island's population declared themselves against the Vichy Government and in favor of General Charles de Gaulle by a vote...