Another Perspective  The Timely Tragedy of David Petraeus    Why
was it convenient to have him resign now?  By 11.13.12  Send to
Kindle  By January 1938, Adolf Hitler was planning to launch
major military campaigns to achieve German hegemony in Western
Europe. The Führer and other Nazi leaders, however, regarded War
Minister, Gen. Werner von Blomberg as too hesitant toward war
preparations and an impediment to extending Nazi control over
the Wehrmacht. Hitler didn't yet feel powerful enough to take on
Blomberg and the traditional Prussian leadership, but fate
turned the tables the Führer's way.  In early January, Blomberg
married Erna Gruhn. Prior to the marriage, Blomberg confided to
Hitler that his fiancée had a shady past due to economic
desperation during the depression years of the Weimar Republic.
Hitler, assuring the general of National Socialist
understanding, not only approved the marriage, he attended the
ceremony where Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goring served as best
man. Within days the Gestapo fed i