Word: reichswehr
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Last week with an accompanying fanfare Feldmarschall August von Mackensen*, monarchist War idol, also in full uniform, reviewed the German Reichswehr as they maneuvered in "East Prussian war games," just without the Polish border...
With the General near, the Reichswehr goose-stepped, saluted, and were proudly inspected amid a furor of monarchist enthusiasm. Alas, as night fell and the General departed, the peasants of the region (Polish sympathizers) would offer the resplendent Reichswehr only pigpens as billets, withstood weary soldiers with pitchforks. Enraged, the authorities arrested hundreds of peasants and temporarily confiscated their property for military purposes...
...seemed, was draped in the old Imperial colors-red, white and black. . . . A train steamed into the station. President-elect Hindenburg, his son and daughter-in-law, alighted. The aged Field Marshal was welcomed to Berlin by the Chancellor, his Cabinet, General von Seeckt, Commander of the Reichswehr, many civic authorities. Fraülein Luther presented a bouquet. . . . A procession of automobiles speeded tip the Heerstrasse (Army Street), passed through the Imperial Arch of the Brandenburg Gate, along the Wilhelmstrasse to the German Chancellery. In the first car was the grey-haired Field Marshal and the grey-haired Chancellor. Monarchist...
Owing to the overcrowding of a pontoon, 84 Reichswehr soldiers lost their lives in the swift River Weser during Army maneuvers. The Reichstag held a "mourning session," flags were at half mast all over Germany...
...That, despite the fact that the Treaty of Versailles prescribes for Germany a Reichswehr (Defense Force) of 100,000 men, Germany maintains by a system of short-term enlistments an effective Reserve estimate...