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% ‘ at ue 3 Generais” ur, day . Rather Than Suicide | Made Hitler Rage (Tits ts the second of a series Of articles ased on rescued frape ments of tir stenograpric notes of Hitler's tioice-a-day ‘nilitery staff tatks-«'Lagcbespreoanngen” —rounded oul by the worifer’s in- fterrogotion of many of the men who were closest to Hitler during the war years.} By George Allen (Copyright. i147, bs North American Wesspapger Aliience, ine} PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 17.—Be- tween 1038 and 1944. Gorman Army: .officers made no fewrr than sx “attempts on Hitler's life, Plus one; try as an army-backed revolt. ‘Tne! generals were tle only organized, German group with freedom enough te plot. Where the mass of the German! pevple Avere heid in thra.i by ihe! dread -Gtstapo, and Nazi Party’ members werg policed by the pe- curity force-+"Sicherhe.tsdienst’'— | ' both controlled by Helnrich Himm-' Jer, Hitler tolerated the officer, corps, It was responsitie directly! to the FPrehrer cand could thus get around Himmler) and were not. t open to investigation by Hlmmier's’ minions. The army had_ its own in-; vestirative agency, the’ Fe.dpolizei.: Thus it was that in the seven’ x yVears up to the July 20. 1544, bomb . plot, German army officers twice 7 tried to kidnap H.tier, made four ‘ Ritemp's tu assassinate him and tried to start @ reyoit on the Rus-: t sian front. i No Reference to Revolt in Russia.! The fragmentary copy of Hitier's slall mecting notes has no refer-, ence jo the attempted revolt on tie Ringian front, spurred by the sgesirg «Of Field Marshal Friedrich von frais. i a olde aoe whe came ne commanding the 6th’ Geran Army at Stalingrad. to: disobry Hltier's last-dltch-stand, wot. orders and save his encircled troops’ NN by surrendering. Von Paulus allowed himself to! be captured ative by the Russigns,! along with Gens. Walthess on:Seyd-+ htz and Fielefeld’Schmidt, When! Hitler heard about this, on Febru-! ary 1, 1943, he went into a rage: and fwlmimated agains; them for| half an Lour. | “They should have fortified them-: selves In and shot. each other with their last builets,” Hitler stormed. Hitlers chief of stafl, Gen. Kurt Zietzler, ofered the comforting! thought, “I can't understand dit. I| am still convinced that it perhaps: Clinpel from WSHIRCTON EVENTING stan tor ATA 7! . ' re | Bot Hiller would no ce eo “No, iptsarue. And 800. Wi sary that they have gone to Moscow where they vill be ‘handled’ by al GPU ‘secret police} and they will, give orecrs that the troops encircled in the nocthern ring surrender too. Gen, Schaudt wili sign it too. Who- ever doernt have the courage to: comaut suicide in @ case dike this) won't have ihe power to resist the Russians, Our trouble is that we honor intelligence tes highly, and not firmness of character”... Worried About Press Reports. “How easy it was for Udet! (Lt. Gen. Ernst Udet, who committed | suicide when he failgd in his job a. Luftwaffe quartertnster.« - The —— aes {pistol vIn This war no one else will be- rowel Pte fF eee, «freak | | Mr. Gavia Mr, Nick Ve Mr, Tracy Tr, Cetaen * Mr, Fea... Mr. Gur ew * Wr. Barbe Mr. Hendon Mar. Pesaing: stad thy It's the easiest thing to/he expected to be ar et r So he made arrangeéh ‘tH his son to surrender fd'@erfrader come a Aeld marshal * * * T ain only S. Patton's Third Army, - sorry that I made Von Paulas & field I wanted to give him his marshal. last wish, ... On August 15, peared at the designated place, & no one was there to meet hm. As! Then Hitler began to worry about siting a few hours, he left for | the press reports: would have stopped it. “Ht this news had het already gotten into the radio, Ij neadquarters again. : Hitler heard that he had be How shall way from his post for a day, & we report It in the press? We'll say ordered Von Kluge to the Fuebre ithat they didn't get any supplies for headquarters which was then imonths and they were then over-| 50°) boissia. Von Kluge's s0n din powered by the Russians. The Rus- him to the airport at Metz, but. siang will give a different story, we must get this out first.” Seydiize and Schmidt talked ont! the Moscow radio for the. 6 Committee for Freedom. Von Paulus! nis rages. held out until January, 1945. when ne learned tnat one of his best | fel marsha! had taken polson 4 ing the trip and arrived dead. Gihen Hitler heard of this. eran! aupust 30, he went into another Hitler Saw Loss of Prestige. “This aflair was directed aga friends was killed after the July 20.) me, and tf It had succeeded, it Ayc 1944 attempt ton Hitler's life. Then have been entastrophic. 1 too he tatked over the radio. Untill Se ‘then the German press had praised But when ne advo- cated revolt against Hitler, they him as a hero. never mentioned him again. Referred io Von Kluge's Plot. The only mention of an’ attempt Lagebes- to Fletd’ Marshal Guenther’ Von" Rouge] in on Hitler's life in the prechungen” is in reference the meeting of August 34, 1944. Von Kluge had been involve whet us in Rumania, tral nations, before in Germany are all talking. .. "He (Von Kluge: saw a number of his officcrs arrested ‘for com- and feared thelr testimony. His nenk plicit¥y in the bomb plotr, ¥, bul now they In’ tine Sty 20 plot and, when it f led, a Turkey.{c ' : Finland end even among the new, an do something - with nothihe Hveryone kept quiet Hitler said, “and others who can do anything with ,everything, .7 my opinion Von Manstein has grea talent for .operation .. . provide that he had first-class materia], go id enough emimunition. But | was being trie¢ at the tim® and Judge Freisler stopped the court, saving, ‘There is a boundary beyond which we must not go. If we cone tinue, all trust in the aAriny high command will cliapse’ Hitler had troubles with other Jomcers. One of these was Gord fansicin, a general, on the eastern frout. "We have men who anything goes wrong, then he | completely helpless.” The one thing of speclal im portance In leading troops, Hith thought, was morale. He alwa\ emphasizec this to his aff. "In nf opinion the most decis've factor’: that the troops have good mor/ | I was the one who always poyt. this out.” : a c oa ay ws