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CONSPIRACY AMONG GENERALS, by Wilhelm von Schramm; transiated and edited by R. T. Clark; Allen and Unwin, New Zealand price 16/-. HE conspiracy, of course, is the July 20 plot to kill Hitler, a badly bungled affair and little credit either in conception or execution to the senior German officers who planned it. This book tells the story of the French end of the affair, as unhappy in its outcome as that in Berlin. True, 1200 Gestapo were arrested and locked up in Paris within a couple of hours, "thanks to the enthusiasm of the troops," without a shot being fired, but plans to end the war in the West by surrendering to the Allies came to nothing through the vacillation of Field-Marshal Kluge. Kluge was Rommel’s successor in com-. mand of Army Group B, and Rommel was prepared to end the war in France; the conclusion is inevitable that the R.A.F. did the Allies a disservice by machine-gunning him on July 17, 1944. Schramm, a German war correspondent, has used war diaries and transcripts of telephone conversations to reconstruct the events of the last fortnight of July. But the fruits of his research are spoiled by the over-dramatised presentation, whether by author or translator it is difficult to say. I suspect the hand of the latter, who once or twice is careless about» dates and often more careless
wih his syntax.
W.A.
G.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 14
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