Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full retreat, the German High Command contradicted both Goebbels and D. N. B., claimed officially to have "destroyed" one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers, eight destroyers, ten submarines, one transport. But Grand Admiral Erich Raeder asserted that "German warship .losses as alleged by the Allies are not in accordance with the facts. The reported sinking or beaching of the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, as well as the cruiser Liitzow, is completely invented. The same holds good for the alleged sinking of the Lloyd express steamship Bremen." (The sinking of the Bremen and the pocket battleship Liitzow was never officially claimed...
...casualties, but the man mostly blamed was Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, then as now First Lord of the Admiralty. Turkish and Allied troops, now fraternizing in the Near East, observed the occasion last week by exchanging salutations, especially Major General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, chief of the Anzac Command,* and Marshal Fervi Cakmak, Chief of the Turkish General Staff...
...camouflage themselves, who were "dumped into Norway's deep snows and quagmires of April slush ... to fight crack German regulars-most of them veterans of the Polish invasion-and to face the most destructive of modern weapons. ... A major military blunder which was not committed by their immediate command, but in London...
...Reason: they were busy convoying Allied Expeditionary Forces as obscurely as possible to Norway. At this job they were sought more fiercely than ever by the German Air Force and what remained of the German Navy. Against a wall of silence raised by the British Admiralty, the German High Command hurled a steady barrage of claims in the struggle of Air Power to prove itself the master of Sea Power...
...rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick passage to the scene last week as the German Legation warned local newspapers to handle Allied news with caution, to "keep entirely to the truth-loving communiqués of the German High Command...