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DIED. Bruce Austin Fraser, 93, deceptively mild-mannered admiral who served from 1948 to 1951 as Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, after having distinguished himself in World War II through exploits like commanding the force that sank the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway in 1943; in London...
...dramatist, Hochhuth is arid and windy, substituting rhetoric for dialogue and debate for conflict. The drama is brought in from offstage like an imported delicacy-dispatches about the sinking of the Scharnhorst, or the discovery of the mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, or telegrams from F.D.R. and Stalin...
...prison, torture and death without emotion-though it is on record that she once said "Pardon" to a woman friend whom she had just betrayed. The Cat continued her broadcasts to London and because of phony messages sent in her name, the British failed to trap the warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen; and it was she who informed the Nazis of the approaching British Commando raid on St. Nazaire. Out of a total British raiding force of 353. no less than 212 were killed or missing...
What a perfect brainwashing job you performed in the German "miracle." First Dr. Adenauer as Man of the Year, now the master race of the century . . . From Frederick the Great to Scharnhorst to Bismarck the Germans were always efficient conquerors and killers. Now they appear as conquering businessmen...
...adversity and gave the Corps its Prussian base. Napoleon and his defeat of the Prussians at Jena gave the G.S.C. its first great strategic concepts-the wielding of massive armies and the conscription needed to provide the uniformed mass. Two non-Prussians, calm, scholarly General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, a Hanoverian, and impetuous, dashing August Wilhelm Anton von Gneisenau, coalesced these concepts. Scharnhorst founded the War Academy, from which Staff officers were chosen, and Gneisenau, as chief of staff of the Prussian army, put the new ideas to work. In Bismarck's time, non-Prussian Helmuth Karl...