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...Last week, he became the first German Chancellor to honor the estimated 200,000 Poles killed by German troops during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. And this week, the Chancellor makes another war-related pilgrimage, this time to Romania. Sixty years ago, his father, Fritz, a lance corporal in the Wehrmacht, was killed and buried with eight other German soldiers in a communal grave in the tiny village of Ceanu Mare, in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains. Gerhard, his only son, is scheduled to visit the grave on Thursday. Until four years ago, Schröder didn't even know...
...North Africa and Italy; time to stockpile in Britain nearly 5 million tons of munitions, thousands of aircraft and an armada of 6,483 ships; time for British and U.S. bombers to cripple Germany's industrial plant and snarl its rail lines; time for the Soviets to bleed the Wehrmacht white on the ghastly killing fields of the eastern front; and, not least, time for Franklin Roosevelt to reassure the American people that their country's cause was just, its leaders prudent and its strategy sound...
...tens of thousands of young men in battles far from home. British and American air forces bombed their cities into landscapes from hell, while in the winter of 1944-45--when the Red Army swept through Eastern Europe--millions of refugees were forced to flee west as the doomed Wehrmacht fought with an almost demented bravery to defend them. It is as an act of recovering German suffering that Crabwalk, the new novel by Gunter Grass, is worth reading. "We have a right to mourn our dead," Grass said to me when I visited his home earlier this year, "despite...
This last fact is rammed home early by a painting, Onkel Rudi (Uncle Rudi), 1965, enlarged from a snapshot of Richter's uncle grinning broadly, about to go to the front in his uniform. The uniform is a double-breasted Wehrmacht overcoat, for Uncle died for his Fuhrer. It comes as a shock. What is that damn Nazi doing in the Museum of Modern Art? His real home is even more jarring: Richter gave the painting to the memorial in Lidice, Czech Republic, commemorating one of the horrific slaughters of World War II. The image, taken from a family photo...
Throughout World War II both the Nazi and Soviet armies achieved significant unit cohesion. Admittedly, there was nothing fuzzy or friendly about the means employed. Stalin had gunners open fire on deserters. The SS brutalized inhabitants of areas through which the Wehrmacht passed, leaving no doubt in the German soldiers' mind that local capture was not a viable option. German troops were also informed that desertion would result in retribution against their families. The moral repugnance of such techniques notwithstanding, they almost certainly contributed to tangible differences in military performance per capita. For every enemy soldier the American trooper killed...