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| | TIME.com: Posies for the General -- May 18, 1953 -- Page 1 |
 | | Erich von Manstein charted the daring Panzer thrust through the Ardennes that split the Allied armies and defeated France, and was assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). |
 | | By last August, old passions having subsided and new political considerations having arisen, Manstein was released on medical parole for an operation on his cataracts, and was allowed afterward to return to Schloss Freyberg, his sister's 60-room castle in the Swabian village of Allmendingen. |
 | | As a band oompahed Im Schdnsten Wiesengrnmde (In the Beautiful Meadow), Manstein, sallow and strained, took a bouquet of lilacs and tulips from the kiddies and said: "We hope for the reconciliation of all peoples and for unification of Europe." It was the eighth anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender. |
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