GERMAN HIGH COMMAND
PURGE BY HITLER
HIMSELF DIRECTING WAR
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 List and Field-Marshal Goering were not mentioned, in the recent long German communique on the operations on the Eastern Ffont. According to the Berlin correspondent of the "Aftonbladet," official German circles state that 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 List 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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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 7
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161GERMAN HIGH COMMAND Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 7
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