Word: reichswehr
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...chosen Coronation week as the time to invade Czechoslovakia and seize those few of its provinces in which citizens of German blood unquestionably predominate. In knowing European circles these rumors were considered "propaganda-in-reverse"-a British attempt to repeat the supremely adroit French move which recently kept the Reichswehr out of Morocco (TIME, Jan. 18). In that case the French Cabinet circulated to the world press the deliberate lie that German forces had already landed at Ceuta, whereas the French Secret Service knew they only planned to do so. Exposed in advance, Dictator Hitler soon professed his "non-aggression...
...Surprises Concluded" Just eleven months ago, when the Reichstag last met, the Saturday Surprise hurled by Hitler was to send grey-green columns of Reichswehr soldiers goose-stepping into the Rhineland, from which they were barred not only by the imposed Treaty of Versailles but by the voluntary Locarno Pact (TIME, Dec.14, 1925)This Surprise-of-1936 the British refused to take tragically, pointing out that while it was a flagrant violation of treaties, nevertheless the Rhineland was German soil. Bereft of British help, the loud fury of the French had soon to subside. The Surprise-of-1937 last week...
Spain's War. Madrid dispatches insisted that the German envoy to the Spanish White Government at Burgos, General Wilhelm Faupel, is in fact the military commander of the German expeditionary force in Spain. Last week Madrid credited him with sending his Reichswehr troops crashing into the Spanish Red Militia a few miles from Madrid and breaking through the Red front on the El Escorial road...
...These are the pro-Hohenzollerns and the Communists. The underground Communists (about 50,000) are superbly organized. From Paris Spivak made an appointment to meet a high Communist in a Hamburg night club. The man showed up in his uniform as a Nazi official. Said he: ''The Reichswehr is far more shrewd than the Nazi Party. The General Staff is composed of scholars who know not only the military situation but the political and economic as well. . . . Before Hitler is through he will have helped considerably to wreck the already weak capitalist system here...
...summer of 1920 an examination was held for the first pupils, who were to act as assistants to the higher troop command. On Oct. 1, training began, fixed at two years. On Oct. 1, 1923 a third year at the Reichswehr Ministry was added. From Oct. 1, 1932 courses for leadership assistants were combined in 'officers' courses in Berlin. Since May 1, 1935 these courses again have borne the name 'War Academy.' With them, even in externals, the old example has been reincarnated, and the new army possesses that important training ground for leadership to which...