Word: reichswehr
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...canny group of officers who cottoned to the Nazis when Hitler first came to power. While the Army's Prussian and Junker aristocrats stood aloof, the middle-class opportunists made friends at Brown House, successfully ignored the atrocities there and enjoyed Nazi favor long before the Prussian-ruled Reichswehr capitulated. Now they rate highly with Hitler: Jodl, of the Führer's personal staff; Dietl, who commands the extreme northern front in Russia; List, who probably now commands the central front...
...Army camps. Though such a program is long overdue, at least now it is a reality. And, encouragingly, it is a reality when America is entering the most critical battle of her history--the battle against the tremendous onslaughts to come this spring and summer from the Reichswehr and its oriental partner...
There were four steps in Papen's plan: 1) to win over Hindenburg; 2) to eliminate Bruening; 3) to eliminate the Reichswehr's "political general," Schleicher; 4) to eliminate Adolf Hitler...
These three have been a team ever since 1935, when the Nazi Party reorganized the Reichswehr and divided the country into three Group Commands. Rundstedt held Group I (based on Berlin), Leeb held II (Cassel), and Bock held III (Dresden). Only two Army groups attacked Poland, but two of these three commanded them: Bock in the north, Rundstedt in the south...
...General Staff saw that it must lose World War I it utilized the fear of Bolshevism to win an armistice. (Last week the Germans were once more "saving Europe" from Bolshevism.) But the General Staff never considered the Armistice anything more than an armistice. Kept intact through the Reichswehr, the General Staff planned to continue the war as soon as possible, first by what André Chéradame calls scientific warfare (propaganda, the war of nerves, etc.), later by armed conflict. Hitler, when he came to power, found a plan already made for him. "He is only carrying...