Word: reichswehr
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...cows, would offer the easiest prize, especially since North Slesvig is swarming with Danish Nazis financed from Berlin. But the main danger was not last week that Germans may be so foolish as to start any kind of war in 1933. The longer Adolf Hitler waits, the keener his Reichswehr and Storm Troops become, the more arms the Fatherland secretly or openly acquires, the greater will be Germany's chance to strike with success. The danger last week was that Europe might not let Germany wait. In Paris, Warsaw, Prague and Brussels statesmen and strategists pondered anxiously what seemed...
...Captain. His promotion, jumping him six full steps, came not from Adolf Hitler but from the President, old Field Marshal von Hindenburg (who took 27 years to advance the same distance). Cautious Germans, secretly fearing the Nazi experiment, have long consoled themselves with the thought that the Reichswehr was not yet completely Nazified, that it was entirely loyal to the old Field Marshal. Only twice before, to Chancellors Bismarck and Bethmann-Hollweg, has such military honor come to any German holding a civilian office. Flaunted before the German people, Hermann Goring's new trousers were a symbol...
...General Goring would still have military superiors. There are three living German Field Marshals: von Hindenburg, von Mackensen, and former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. All three share the same private opinion of Adolf Hitler. At the same time that General Goring got his trousers the Chief of the Reichswehr, General Werner von Blomberg, was moved up from General to Colonel General, Germany's highest peacetime rank...
...Nazi Storm Troops, mostly small-time politicians. Little by little Chancellor Hitler is trying to Nazify the Army and win its idolized leader General Werner von Blomberg away from his stanch loyalty to President von Hindenburg, his aloof attitude toward politics. Last week General von Blomberg as Reichswehr (Army) Minister issued an order which warmed Nazi cockles, a definitely anti-Semitic order. "In future any member of the Reichswehr desirous of marrying," he decreed, "must submit evidence that his proposed bride is Aryan that none of her four grandparents was Jewish]. Further she must be respectable. She must...
Added Le Petit Journal: "It is evident that the Hitler mildness was a result of President Roosevelt's note, also the counsel of Premier Mussolini. Despite assertions that there is no connection between the Reichswehr and the Nazis, France has every reason to distrust...