Word: waffen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seeing an enemy to fire at. He returned to Calais to look with the eyes of defeat on the victors, big strapping Germans who manned the great guns that hurled shells across the English Channel into Dover. In the winter of 1942, he decided to join the conquerors. German Waffen SS sent him south to Paris to report for duty...
...knows. He expressed the fact that his confidence was shaken. He had lost confidence in the Wehrmacht quite a while ago, saying that he had not gotten true reports, that bad news had been withheld from him. This afternoon he said that he was losing confidence in the Waffen SS, for the first time. He had always counted on the Waffen SS as elite troops which would never fail him. Now he pointed out a series of reports which he declared were false...
...following this tradition, the Junker generals had let the Kaiser go packing when the jig was up, and graciously permitted a new civilian government to bear the onus of defeat. But the Kaiser had not had a Heinrich Himmler, with his SS and Waffen SS, armies within armies, spies and informers, ruthless execution squads...
...afternoon last week trucks loaded with troops of a Waffen SS (armed elite guard) unit drove up to the farm village of Oradour-sur-Glane, in central France. In a few moments the town crier made the rounds, ordered everyone to assemble at the fair grounds...
...Make immediate contact with the Milice [militia of renegade Frenchmen], at once appointing Milice chiefs to their corresponding grades in the Waffen SS. . . . The Milice will be immediately mobilized. It will be supplied with food and ammunition from [German] Army sources...