Word: seeckt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German comrades won over the Wehrmacht officers and men. They kept the German commanders posted, by battle map, on the steady German retreat, east & west. They worked on the tradition of Russo-German friendship among the German military cadres-a tradition implanted by Bismarck, cultivated by General Hans von Seeckt, who outwitted the Allies and armed the Reichswehr in part with the help of munitions and plane factories in Russia...
...military and air strength, not only from 1933 to the beginning of the war, but since war began, is suggested by the estimates of the table (see p. 27). Not all this was achieved by Hitler. Some of it belongs to his predecessors, for instance to General Hans von Seeckt who organized the seven division (100,000-man) Army that Hitler inherited in 1933. Today virtually all Seeckt's well trained 100,000 are officers of the Nazi Army. Otherwise its rapid expansion would not have been possible...