GERMAN ARMY’S DEFECT
Claim By Russian
WEAK POINT WILL BE UNDOING
(Received November 18,11.40 p.m.)
LONDON, November 18.
“Germany’s soldiers are not as good as their fathers,” declared LieutenantGeneral Rokossovsky, known as 'the “defender of -Moscow,” in an interview with the “Izvestia.” He said: “I fought in the last war against their fathers and am able to make the comparison. Germany's present army looks like a real army and it would deceive an inexperienced eye. It marches splendidly, salutes smartly, contains many fine marksmen and brave men, and their commanders know tactics inside out.
“But it is a commercial and not a military army, and it will never gain a decisive victory, because its plans are based on exploiting the adversary’s weaknesses. This is the undoing of any army. Hitler’s men might win a lot of victories, but they will never win this war.”
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 47, 19 November 1941, Page 7
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