![]() ![]() In any case he had consistently violated the Fuehrer ordinance that no notes of the daily conferences should be retained except the official transcript made by Hitler's own stenographic staff. Perhaps Kreipe had been instructed by Goering to report fully on all that Hitler might say perhaps Kreipe was a habitual diary-keeper. Goering and the Luftwaffe were represented by Werner Kreipe, chief of staff for OKL. ![]() From this fact stems the limited knowledge available of the initial appearance of the idea which would be translated into historical fact as the Ardennes counteroffensive or Battle of the Bulge. So was Heinz Guderian, who as acting chief of staff for OKH held direct military responsibility for the conduct of operations on the Russian front. Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl were in this second conference. No special word had come in from the battle fronts and the briefing soon ended, the conference disbanding to make way for a session between Hitler and members of what had become his household military staff. On Saturday, 16 September 1944, the daily Fuehrer Conference convened in the Wolf's Lair, Hitler's East Prussian headquarters. ![]() Chapter I-THE ARDENNES: BATTLE OF THE BULGE ![]()
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