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  1. This decision is absolutely contrary to my understanding of what the plan was to be in the event of an invasion.
  2. The Fuhrer has decided to raze the city of St. Petersburg from the face of the earth. After the defeat of Soviet Russia there will be not t…
  3. If one looks back at the short period of time of the Badoglio government, one must remember that the Italian longing and need for peace was…
  4. Hitler's large-scale demands for the Mediterranean meant that...the plans for...an 'Eastern Wall' were overtaken by the increasingly rapid …
  5. 1. Political officials and leaders are to be liquidated. 2. Insofar as they are captured by the troops, an officer with authority to impose…
  6. Had the 20th of July bomb plot against Hitler succeeded there would have been strikes and civil war within Germany... Already there were fa…
  7. Hitler gave another fateful halt order just when the armoured vanguards of Army Group North had reached the outskirts of Leningrad. Apparen…
  8. Keitel, Jodl and Warlimont had never been in the war....Their lack of fighting experience tended to make them underrate practical difficult…

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