Abstract

Hitler's Last General

This article presents information regarding changes made by the German ruler Adolf Hitler in the top commands of the German Army. At the climactic stage in the Battle of Germany Hitler once again seeks to stave off his inevitable fate by a shuffle of top commanders in the western theater of war. Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's headquarters confirmed on March 22, 1945 what had earlier been rumored in Swedish and Swiss dispatches, that Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstede has been relieved of his command in the west. Whatever his feelings toward Hitler and the Nazi regime, the Marshal is known to belong to the "no surrender" school. Although as a strategist he is not so highly rated as Rundstedt, he is a master of the slow, hard-fighting retreat.