Word: generalmajor
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...quiet, unassuming Major von Schleicher. When the remnants of the old army were being reorganized in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles he helped General Hans von Seeckt organize the Reichswehr and quietly took up a post in the Defense Ministry. In 1926 he became Oberst (Colonel), in 1929 Generalmajor, holding down a job that friends thought should satisfy him for the rest of his life-chief of the Ministry's Organization Department. Apparently he was devoid of ambition, a confirmed bachelor with a ready smile and a fund of smoking car stories. He delighted in large pale cigars...
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