Word: volkssturm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were ordered closed and the Salzburg performances canceled. But as a concession to Strauss's great prestige, Goebbels authorized a single "dress rehearsal for technicians," of the composer's new opera. Next day, several members of the cast were handed rifles and drafted into the last-ditch Volkssturm army...
...idyl was interrupted for a while in 1944. At 53, ex-Soldier Dix was drafted into the Volkssturm for the last-ditch defense of the Reich. But his World War II service was brief and painless. "I was with my squad of ten other men near a little town on the Rhine. We were posted in a field. It was a warm spring afternoon. We all lay down in the grass and went to sleep The next thing we knew, there were some French African troops standing over us with machine guns in their hands. We just did what they...