Word: reichswehr
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...Hauptmann von Schleicher won his majority. In the bloody days of 1919 German authorities suddenly discovered the usefulness of quiet, unassuming Major von Schleicher. When the remnants of the old army were being reorganized in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles he helped General Hans von Seeckt organize the Reichswehr and quietly took up a post in the Defense Ministry. In 1926 he became Oberst (Colonel), in 1929 Generalmajor, holding down a job that friends thought should satisfy him for the rest of his life-chief of the Ministry's Organization Department. Apparently he was devoid of ambition...
...With the publication of this decree the executive power passes to the Minister of the Reichswehr [Minister of Defense] who may retransfer it to the commanding officers...
...French or Russian) with a small, extremely mobile force. For two days the "Blue" army, (one division) inflating itself to look as much as possible like 50,000 Frenchmen, advanced slowly, methodically against the reds. Third day maneuvers went into reverse. General Heye, chief umpire, commander of the Reichswehr, announced that "the Red army has had enough practice in retreating," ordered the Blues to show their practice in retreat. At week's end maneuvers ended in a perfect holocaust of fire. Soldiers, determined not to carry any heavy ammunition back to barracks blazed away with enthusiasm. One machine...
...Maginot. Frightened by the bellicose posturings of Mussolini, the blunt pre-election speeches of Germany's bad boy, Cabinet Minister Gottfried R. Treviranus (TiME, Aug. 25), he has been even more impressed by a little book written by that hyper-acute general, Hans von Seeckt, organizer of the German Reichswehr. It is General von Seeckt's premise that the Allies, in limiting Germany's huge conscript army to a professional volunteer force of 100,000 men supplemented by a state police force of 150,000 more, unwittingly gave Germany just the sort of army a modern state really needs...
...Vossische Zeituag announced that General Wilhelm Heye of the Reichswehr (standing army) would resign his office after the election. Named as his possible successor was General Kurt von Hammerstein, who was seized as a Republican sympathizer in 1920 on the eve of the Kapp putsch (revolution). General Hans von Seeckt, who organized the Reichswehr so efficiently that Allied influence urged his retirement, made his political debut by accepting the new Conservative People's Party nomination for the Reichstag in the constituency of Magdeburg-Anhalt...