alarmed. “Pull yourself together!”
Göring skidded to a halt, and slumped into a chair.
“How many of you,” he roared eventually to the high-
ranking officers who had watched this scene, “would have had
the courage to tell me what this young man has today!”
He placed both hands on the major’s shoulders.
“I’d like you on the air staff. Have a word with Loerzer
about it.”
He had appointed his crony Loerzer disgraced by the
fiascos in Italy as chief of personnel. A few days later
Leuchtenberg found himself posted to the remotest corner of
the eastern front, attached to Air Corps in the Crimea.