By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were dead. It was the largest fire in American history. Martin Kitchen is an internationally recognized expert on German and Austrian military and economic history. Goebbels promoted the Nazi message through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, and the press, and censored all opposition.
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These demonstrations drew , people in 40 cities across the country. In New York, David Gretzky had entered the But he wanted more. He spun himself an empire through bribes, favors, and secret deals.
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Two freight cars bristling with rapid-fire anti-aircraft Oerlikon cannons provided security. One, General Walter Wever, became the first Luftwaffe chief of staff. The forward-thinking Wever kenned that an air force had two roles: support ground forces,and operate strategically on its own.
In , for example, Wever had been planning for a long-range heavy bomber force when he died in a flying accident. But by , he was woefully out of touch. He had finished the previous war as a captain, spent more than a decade as a civilian, and in being abruptly elevated to general, missed staff college and the on-the-job education of climbing through the ranks. No four-engine bomber could dive-bomb, but that was how Udet and Jeschonnek envisioned the Heinkel He —a turkey of a design that gobbled time, money, resources, and the lives of their top pilots trying to test-fly it.
The Luftwaffe headed into war with already obsolescent, mids era bombers rather than powerful modern ones. The Luftwaffe also failed to adapt an independent strategic role. The same hubris suffused the Battle of Britain. And those antennae along their coast? Third-rate radar. In early September , he summoned fighter commanders to Carinhall for a pep talk. Losing the Battle of Britain proved disastrous, forcing Hitler to turn east far earlier than he wanted and triggering a two-front war.
The strain broke Udet, who shot himself in November , leaving a mess never to be sorted out. On February 2, , what remained of the Sixth Army in Stalingrad surrendered. On May 25, , fighter ace Adolf Galland touted the twin-engine Messerschmitt Me jet, which flew mph faster than any Allied piston-engine aircraft. Goring stands trial in Nuremberg. He would be tried and sentenced with 11 other top Nazi officials. Eisenhower, seeking a face-to-face meeting.
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