Word: seeckt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sorry to say that I look toward the future with great concern. We cannot ignore the fact that according to von Seeckt's theory,* motorized German shock troops leaving Aachen at 8 p. m. could be at Brussels at 5 a. m. the next day without having met Belgian troops. . . . The population as a whole has behaved well except youths, who, apparently incited by their schoolmasters, resorted to tricks that impelled me to abandon riding or marching through the streets...
...General Hans von Seeckt, organizer and first commander of the German Reichswehr?post-War military machine. He resigned at the request of Allied military observers in 1926. Official reason: for allowing a Hohenzollern prince to take part in German Army maneuvers...
Since a Cabinet Minister had uttered publicly an untruth someone had to resign. General von Seeckt called upon President von Hindenburg, handed in his resignation. Said Paul von Hindenburg to Hans von Seeckt: "I thank you for your extraordinary services to the Fatherland in war and peace...
Explosion. Not until last week did Republican and Communist newsorgans discover and commence to flay the indiscretion of General von Seeckt. Most lamentably Defense Minister Gessler, ignorant of the General's peccadillo, denied publicly what proved to be the truth: that Prince Wilhelm served with the "Hohenzollern Ninth" during the recent maneuvers...
Next day Lieutenant General Wilhelm Heye, Commander of the First Reichswehr Division, was appointed to succeed General von Seeckt as Chief of the Army Command. Since the new Chef is not a full general he is outranked by the generals commanding the two German army corps. Thus the proud title of General von Seeckt, amounting to "Chief of Staff" (ever a bugaboo to the Allies), has been placed ingeniously in abeyance. The new Chef will serve merely as an adviser to Defense Minister Gessler...