SET ASIDE?
LEADING GERMAN GENERALS HITLER’S PERSONAL CONTROL. FUNCTIONS OF SUPREME COMMANDER. MOSCOW, August 11. The Stockholm correspondent of the Tass (Soviet) news agency says that Swedish political circles are discussing the fact that the names of General von Brauchitsch (German Commander-in-Chief), General von Keitel (Chief of the General Staff), General Liszt and Field-Marshal Goering were not mentioned in the recent long German communique on the operations on the Eastern Front. According to the “Aftonbladet s’ Berlin correspondent, official German circles state that Herr Hitler- personally and alone is exercising the functions of supreme commander. The Tass agency comments that all the generals who did not approve of Hitler's plan for war against the Soviet Union have been dismissed or given new appointments. ' General Liszt has been sent to the Balkans and General von Brauchitsch to the Western Front, General von Keitel has been absent from Hitler’s headquarters in the last fortnight, while even pro-Germans no longer; doubt that Field-Marshal Goering has been arrested.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1941, Page 5
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164SET ASIDE? Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1941, Page 5
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