Volume 50, Number 19 · December 4, 2003
The Goblin at War
By Gordon A. Craig
Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity
by Alexander B. Rossino
University Press of Kansas, 343 pp., $34.95
Hitler's Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland,and the USSR, 1940–1945
by Chris Mann and Christer Jörgensen
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's, 224 pp., $24.95
Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences, 1942–1945
edited by Helmut Heiber and David M. Glantz, with an introduction by Gerhard L. Weinberg; translated from the German by Roland Winter, Krista Smith, and Mary Beth Friedrich
Enigma, 1,158 pp., $42.00
In June 1940, after Germany's defeat of France, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the Wehrmacht Supreme Command, referred to Adolf Hitler as the Grösster Feldherr aller Zeiten (Greatest Warlord of All Times). When the fortunes of war began to wane, Hitler's generals transformed this into the shorter Gröfaz, a name suitable for a kobold or goblin.
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