Evening star., 1944-07-21

Falkenhausen, was eased from his
in Belgium and Northern
France.
Others who have been dismissed
from major commands in recent
months include Marshal Walther
Won Brauchitsch, Marshal Fedor Won
Boch, Marshal wilhelm Ritter Leeb
Marshal Fritz Erich Won Mannsteir
and Marshal Ewald Won Kleist.
AS long ago as last November re.
ports from inside Germany indi.
Gated an anti-Hitler group of ole
line Junkers was awaiting the psy.
Geological moment to attempt {
coup.
The first Soviet reaction broad.
cast by the Moscow radio was tha'
the attempt on Hitler's life wa!
Tonly one episode of a widespread
conspiracy by a group of German
generals and officers" This broad
cast said 1t was considered signif1
cant that one German general aftel
another had surrendered in the fac,
of the current Red Army offensive
without attempting to carry ou
Hitler's 'fight-to-the-death order.
Plane Flights Restricted.
Goering decreed that every air
plane flight must have the aIprova
either of himself or Himmler-pos
sibly a precaution to pervent an,
Hess-like flights or forestall an,
peace emissaries from reaching tn,
Allies.
Himmler, whose reputation as {
ruthless hangman Is well known
even within censor ridden Ger.
many. got quickly to work aftel
Hitler named him Commander ol
the army at home"
This time we will settle accounts
In such a manner as we Nationa
Socialists are won't" Hitler shouted
The ak fell first on the colonel
named by Hitler as hurting the
bomb-a Count Won Stauffenberg
apparently one of the three sons ol
Freiherr Schenk Won Stauffenberp
Of Wilfingen, Wuerttemberg. Ber.
lin announced he had been shot.
A succession of broadcasts de.
clared the plot had completely col.
lapsed," one of them saying:
The ringleaders have partly com.
mitted suicide after their attempt
had failed. Partly they were shot by
battahons of the army. - There
were no incidents anywhere. AL
other people who have become gull
ty Of crime by their attitude will be
taken to account"
Organized Fight Called For.
An hour and one-half after the
Nazis claimed the revolt had beer
crushed. broadcast >purporting te
come from an underground German
radio called for an organized fight
against Himmler's Gestapo.
Lauding the officers who made
the attempt on Hitler's life, the
speaker, who identified himself a.
q German Army man, declared that
only united host of such coura-
geous and fearless officers can say,
our cause"
Il personally am entirely unhur,
apart from negligible grazes, bruise.
or burns" Hitler said in relating
what he called the details about q
crime that has no equal in German
history"
An extremely small clique ol
ambitious, unscrupulous, and at the
same time foolish, criminally stupic
officers Matched a plot to remov,
me and together with me virtually
to exterminate the staff of the Ger.
man High Command" Hitler said.
Addressing himself to German
men and women" Hitler declared
that one of the reasons for hi
broadcast was to disprove "the
assertion Of these usurpers that
was no longer alive" Goering, ir
the same vein. accused the plotters
OF trying to set up a new govern.
ment on the false premise tha
Hitler was dead
New Shift in Officers,
In his broadcast, Hitler announced
a new shift in his commanding Off.
GERS He said he had called Col. Gen
Heinz Guderian to be chief of tn,
general staff because the incumben,
was forced to retire for health rea-
sons Gucerian, tank expert, has
been fighting on the Russian front
Hitler did not name the retired
chief OF staff, but he apparently re.
ferred to Col Gen. Kurt Zeitzler
who was named to the Office in De.
cember, 1912. This Office is not to b,
confused with that of Maj. Gen
Alfred Jodl, Hitler's personal chic
|, OF staff, who was wounded in tn,
explosion. Hitler said he had ap
pointed another Eastern front vet.
eran to aid Guderian, but did no
disclose his name.
Goering announced that, as
safeguard against false orders,
all German air force formation
were directed to take instruction
only from Col. Gen. Hans Vol
Stumpf, who was named in com
mand of all Luftwaf1e elements in
side Germany.
/ Gen. Won Stunt Is an infantr,
officer with IL years experience il
the air force-and that mostly il
swivel chair. Fifty-four years old
he is an East Prussian. He joine,
the army in 1907, rose to the genera
staff in 1916 and was shifted tc tn
air force in 1888.
His chief military experience ha
been as personnel administrator
He formerly commanded German
air III in Norway and was criti
cized for its failure to stop tn
RATS intensive attacks on Germa]
shipping.
Goering declared those involve
in the plot were the selfsame cur
who tried to betray and sabotag
the front"
Describes Germany's Struggle.
Admiral Doenitz attributed tn
assassination attempt to "A sma
clique of mad generals" and de
Scribed them as "tools of ~,