Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain E. D. McMorries, medical officer in command, backed him up. Said Captain McMorries: "The decorum of the institution is paramount...
Desired Results. From a string of other witnesses came stories implicating not merely the obvious organizations such as the Gestapo and SS, but also the then-aristocratic High Command. At one time the Army had ordered executions speeded up because of a food and housing shortage on the eastern front. The secret shooting of recaptured P.O.W.s had been given the professional military label of "operation bullet...
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Heinrich Himmler's chief of all counter-partisan activities in the Soviet Union, testified that Germany's official aim had been to exterminate 30 million Slavs. The High Command, he said, had been well aware of this. Shouted Goring, once again losing his serene composure: "Dirty dog! Damned traitor...
...prosecution was boring into its most difficult task: mass indictment of the entire German General Staff and High Command (some 114 top generals and admirals) for cooperating with the Nazis and plotting aggressive war beyond the normal duties of a patriotic officer. Said Assistant Prosecutor Colonel Telford Taylor, U.S.A.: "We respect the distinguished profession of arms. . . . We do not condemn a man for being a locksmith, but we do condemn him for taking advantage of his profession to break into his neighbor's house...
...rewarded by command of the party's Brown House headquarters at Munich. His brother, Albert, became Hitler's personal aide. Now, with the threads of Nazi command in his hands, he worked over the lists-1,800 names long-of those to be killed in the 1934 purge. In 1938 he checked off the generals to be ousted...