Word: reichswehr
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...first time since the War, Germany last week found herself with an army and a War Minister. Celebrating the official promulgation of Germany's new conscription law, handsome grey-haired Lieut. General Werner von Blomberg dropped his title of Reichswehr (Realm's Defense) Minister and reassumed the pre-War title of Kriegsminister (Minister of War). The Reichswehr, too, dropped that name, which it has never liked, to become again Germany's Heer. To cap the day, Kriegsminister von Blomberg performed a little ceremony. He went out to the Invaliden Cemetery, laid wreaths on the graves...
...Reichswehr, no soldier in active service may marry without his commanding officer's permission, nor may he marry a Jewess or other than Aryan. Those even in the reserve who do so will lose their military rank. German citizens living in foreign countries are still liable for conscription. Pure-blooded Jews, criminals and the morally unfit are excluded from active service. The only ones exempted from military service are candidates for the Catholic priesthood who have already received at least a subdeacon's ordination. Unlike the old Prussian Army, officered exclusively by aristocrats, every conscript will have...
Black-uniformed black-helmeted Schutzstaffel (Special Guards) ringed Berlin's Kroll Opera House last week while a battalion of grey Reichswehr troops stood as a guard of honor before the door. In public squares all over Berlin, all over Germany, other crowds stood gaping at the trumpet horns of loudspeakers. Inside the Opera House the brown-shirted Reichstag had been called to order by paunchy Hermann Wilhelm Göring. It had risen, once to honor the memory of Bavarian Minister of Education Hans Schem, killed in an airplane accident, once to do the same for the late Marshal...
...Versailles which denies all military aircraft to Germany. Last week, five days before Realmleader Hitler made the treaty a scrap of paper (see p. 20), General Göring gave direct evidence. He announced that Germany has long had a military air force, merged it formally with the Reichswehr, announced himself as "General of the Flyers...
...used to wear baggy plus fours of assorted tweeds and gaudy sports sweaters when Germany's air army was really secret. After Hitler became Chancellor they changed to a "grey blue uniform, purely civilian." Last week, like caterpillars bursting out of greyish skins, German air officers sprouted into Reichswehr slate blue, their short Nazi "dirks of honor" lengthening into swords...