Word: reichswehr
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...people cheered Ludendorff when he swaggered in or out of anywhere. The Hitler storm troops were in possession of the city and the sun was shining brightly on the following day. "Chancellor" Hitler and "Commander-in-Chief" von Ludendorff were within the War Office when the loyal Bavarian Reichswehr stormed the building, and after a short battle the "beer hall revolt" was crushed...
...modern warfare. The establishment in the winter of 1959-60 of the Strategic Rocket Forces as a separate service marked the onset of a fundamental transformation of Soviet military thinking and development that is still in the course of implementation. Just as in the interwar years, the German Reichswehr had developed a novel strategy for rapid breakthroughs of static defenses centered on the tank which the British had invented in World War I, so the Russians had taken over the U.S. developed nuclear warhead, fitted it onto the German-devised rocket, and formulated a fresh strategy in which, in violation...
...mean that German militarism is stirring again: the new General Staff college is rising in Hamburg, historically one of the least martial-minded of German cities. And the college's chief is no monocled martinet such as the late great General Hans von Seeckt, who built the Reichswehr after Versailles, but an infantryman who rose to major general's rank fighting on the Eastern Front. Yet there are signs that the postwar German attitude toward the military is changing...
Died. Dr. Otto Gessler, 80, post-World War I (1920-28) German Minister of Defense, who sanctioned the German Republic's creation of an illegal "black Reichswehr" in violation of the 100,000-man limit set by the Versailles treaty; of a heart attack; in Lindenberg, Germany...
...rejected Molotov's proposal. Their objections were many. The Russian plan would set up all Germany for an ultimate Communist coup. Even those Frenchmen who oppose German rearmament inside a European Army (EDC) were alarmed at German "national armed forces" as an alternative. It looked dangerously like the Reichswehr, which Hitler had built into the Wehrmacht. As for Molotov's proposal that each occupying nation withdraw all its troops from Germany, Bidault commented wryly: "I can well see the advantages for the Soviet Union in withdrawing part of its troops a few dozen kilometers [the distance from Berlin...