The Hell of the Eastern Front
24th September 1942: Hitler sacks his Chief of Staff as casualties mount on the Eastern Front
The deteriorating relationship between Hitler and his Generals came to a culmination on the 24th September when he sacked his Chief of Staff, Franz Halder. It was now apparent that the objective for 1942, the capture of the oilfields in the Caucasus, was not …
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