Word: groener
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Died. General Wilhelm Groener, 71, last Quartermaster General of the Imperial German Army, Defense Minister under the post-War republic; in Potsdam. Because, in November 1918, he bluntly told the Kaiser that the Army was no longer with him, monarchists nicknamed Groener the "Red General...
Enclosed a picture of General von Schleicher. cut from p. 17 of TIME of June 13, and two pictures cut from the opening article of the Saturday Evening Post of July 16. You will notice that on the latter the same person is supposed to be General Groener. Which is right...
Satevepost was wrong, TIME right. Satevepost's "von Schleicher" is General Wilhelm Groener, onetime Minister of Defense and Interior, and vice versa...
...post called Political and Parliamentary Secretary to the Defense Ministry. There he had a finger in both political and military pies, wangled his way into the President's confidence and first showed his strength earlier this year by maneuvering out of office his immediate superior, Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener. Last week General von Schleicher was credited with having made the President believe that "the army could not be depended on in a crisis with Dr. Brüning as Chancellor...
...last hours as Kaiser, indecisive Wilhelm II asked General Groener whether he and other German officers would keep the oath they had sworn to their Emperor. Replied General Groener who today is Germany's Minister of Interior and Defense, "What is an oath, Your Majesty? It is only an idea...