Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 the fate of thousands of other officers and was relegated to the reserve corps, his career apparently...
...head of artillery in the Defense Ministry, a key figure in Germany's miniature Army. He became a lieutenant colonel in 1925 and served a turn in a Prussian artillery regiment. In 1930 he was back in the 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...
...Hitler in a 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...
...women stayed in harness, 20,000 joined an organization called W. P. K. Its founder, Maria Wittek, fought in the World War in the Polish Legion and against the Bolsheviks under Marshal Pilsudski. He later gave her special permission to study in the military officers' college. She holds a rank in the regular army, is Inspectorette of the W. P. K. Her followers, in pleated blue skirts, khaki shirts, blue Sam Browne belts and berets, were last week taking over jobs as guards, drivers, messengers, signalers, nurses...
...hour of the Leader's death on May 12, 1935, 49-year-old Edward Smigly-Rydz* became Inspector-General (or Generalissimo) of the Army, Fourteen months later he had the Premier send out a circular to all Government ministries proclaiming him "Second Citizen" of the Republic, next in rank in every way to the President, who by the Constitution was Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Last week the President signed his own superiority away. Marshal Smigly-Rydz was made Commander-in-Chief, was designated successor to the Presidency in case of vacancy before the war ends. President Moscicki...