Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cavalry general stationed in Berlin, he grew up there, got the best schooling to be had in Germany, at the Französisches Gymnasium of Berlin, and in 1900, aged 19, became a lieutenant in the Royal Elizabeth Guard Grenadiers. The Grenadiers wore corsets and led a gay social life; Lieutenant Brauchitsch, whose nature was somewhat more vigorous, persuaded his father to get him transferred to an artillery regiment. By 1914 he had risen to the rank of captain. Throughout the four years of World War I he remained a General Staff officer, saw no fighting. In 1918 he shared...
...Defense Ministry as director of military training, with the rank of colonel. His career seemed to lie in office work, and after serving briefly as chief of staff of the 6th Artillery Regiment he was given the routine assignment of inspecting the artillery. He became a major general in 1931, chief of artillery in March...
...Russia. It was Brauchitsch who was responsible for the East Prussian fortifications that were built after 1933 - a complicated system of blockhouses and two heavy fortresses designed to make East Prussia impregnable on the East. When he was in East Prussia, Brauchitsch's chief of staff was General Walter von Reichenau, closest of all the Army officers to the Nazis and to their chief...
...bluff and those who counseled delay. Brauchitsch kept mum, but when the purge came and Blomberg and Fritsch lost their jobs,* his good friend Reichenau recommended him to Hitler as the man to lead the Army. In February 1938, he took over its command, with the rank of Colonel General, and became a member of the Secret Cabinet Council created to advise Hitler on foreign policy...
Just before the Anschluss, General Brauchitsch is supposed to have told Adolf Hitler: "Mein Führer, if you want to use the Army to support a bluff by military pressure, you can depend on us. For more serious business, we are not yet ready." A few days later he had taken over command of the Austrian Army. In September 1938, he said the same thing in almost the same words-and marched into the Sudetenland at the head of the German troops. He occupied Bohemia and Moravia last spring, but still the Army was not ready. Last month...