Word: conscripts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Just how the new conscript law works was explained last week by youthful General Walter von Reichenau, a potent staff officer in the War Ministry...
Normally, at the age of 20, male conscripts will be called up for a full year of active service. Before that, however, they must have served a term in the Labor Service. After his year of active service the conscript is transferred to the First Reserve in which, until he is 35, he must assemble for annual inspections and reviews, serve at various times in maneuvers with active troops. From 35 to 46 he becomes a member of the Landwehr or Second Reserve, not to be called out except in times of national emergency but still liable for annual inspections...
...pure-blooded Jew may serve in Germany's conscript army but in time of war he may be given the honor of dying for his country. A-special military commission has been set up to decide the eligibility of ''part Jews" but these can never hope to rise even as high as corporal...
...Reichswehr, no soldier in active service may marry without his commanding officer's permission, nor may he marry a Jewess or other than Aryan. Those even in the reserve who do so will lose their military rank. German citizens living in foreign countries are still liable for conscription. Pure-blooded Jews, criminals and the morally unfit are excluded from active service. The only ones exempted from military service are candidates for the Catholic priesthood who have already received at least a subdeacon's ordination. Unlike the old Prussian Army, officered exclusively by aristocrats, every conscript will have...
...things not at first apparent were that the new conscript law suddenly makes Kriegsminister von Blomberg one of the most powerful men in Germany, and means the end as a political force of Hitler's Brown Shirts. In the old Imperial Army the War Ministry was a purely administrative post. Not so that of Kriegsminister von Blomberg. Last week's law made him the actual commander of all Germany's armed forces, responsible only to Der Führer in person. Under him and observing his orders will be General Werner von Fritsch of the Army, Admiral...