DIVIDED COUNSELS
THE GERMAN STAFF
WINTER CAMPAIGN PLAN
(Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 6.
The Moscow radio says a message from Stockholm reported that a number of German generals have demanded that Hitler should forbid Himmler (the/ chief of police) from interfering in army matters. "Besides this disagreement," it was stated, "there have been fresh disagreements between the German generals themselves and the German High Command. The original plan did not provide for a winter campaign. During the latest conferences at.Hitler's headquarters which considered preparations for a winter campaign. General List and another general pointed out that the longer communications of the German armies in the east, together with the guerrilla warfare, make it risky to4aunch any further offensive operations by individual formations isolated from the main body of the army. General Guderian supported them. / They foretold the failure of the new plan of their general staff unless the army consolidated its position in the occupied area. ■ Field-Marshal Goering was not present, the official reason being ill health."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1941, Page 7
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