This Date in History: October 10

Dr. Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Luftwaffe Field Marshal, born October 10, 1895 in Gut Barzdorf (Silesia), commander of the VIIIth Flying Corps, commander of the Fourth and Second Air Fleets, winner of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, died July 12, 1945 in Bad Ischl, Austria in U.S. captivity, buried at Bad Ischl, Austria, on the Soviet offensive at Stalingrad in November 1942: “It seems the Russians are going to attack the Italians too – a bad thing, as they will probably run faster than the Romanians.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)

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Hermann Reinecke, Army General of Infantry, born February 14, 1888 in Wittenberg, Chief of the National Socialist Leadership Corps in the OKW, winner Nazi Golden Party Badge, sentenced at Nürnberg to Life Imprisonment, released in 1954, retired to Hamburg, died on October 10, 1973, discussed the brutality on the Eastern Front: “The war between Germany and Russia is not a war between two states or two armies, but between two ideologies – namely the National Socialist and the Bolshevist ideology.  The Red Army must be looked upon not as a soldier in the sense of the word applying to our western opponents, but as an ideological enemy.  He must be regarded as the archenemy of National Socialism and must be treated accordingly.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)