If you really want to know all of the secrets about our friend Manny, you can buy this new book for only $23.99 from Military Book Club… it is all about Erich von Manstein. I won’t be surprised if the book lists all of his girlfriends…
Egad…I always hated that pic—it was taken in the mid-30’s in Berlin. Actually, the list you refer to is the second appendix at the back of the book, right after a 12 page chronology of beer-hall brawls I was allagedely involved in…
I was using it to keep the ceiling fan from blowing the maps off of the table but Adolf kept commenting on the likeness and asking how I came into posession of it, so I finally got tired of the distraction and took it from the table and placed it beside a briefcase that was left by an Adjutant Colonel…Well, next thing I knew the place was full of smoke and fire and my uniform was in tatters…some say the “Manny” deflected the blast away from Hitler…
I am with Manny… I don’t believe that hogwash the table support saved Hilter’s life. I strongly believe in the fact that Herman Goering’s big butt has saved his life…