Word: wehr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even further into Poland before turning on the real heat. Just as France's main Maginot Line is manned by veteran regulars, with young reservists performing the attack work, so Germany's Wall is manned by 20 divisions (some 250,000 men) of the regular Land-wehr, mostly veterans of 35-45, specially trained for defense. For sallies and counterattack which the Germans executed with moderate success last week, less valuable field troops are used, and Allied observers reported streams of reinforcements flowing toward Trier at week's end. They looked like about six divisions, which would...
...German army magazine Deutsche Wehr ("German Defense") pointed with pride to a "fundamental difference" between the army of the Fatherland and that of other European countries. In France during peace time, declared Deutsche Wehr, the typical army company unit of 170 men is not kept at full strength, but in Germany it is. In France the calling up of reservists is thus in its first stage simply a filling up of the army to its nominal full strength, but in Germany the calling of reservists means adding manpower to an army already full. The regular German Army, boasted Deutsche Wehr...
...Italy and was safely in Vienna, but to seize some of the munitions supposed to be hidden in his castle. It was a local Putsch and any smart Nazi might have guessed there were no guns at Waxenberg last week. Prince von Starhemberg has not yet disarmed his Heim-wehr as the Government is insisting he do, but he had removed every rifle from his castle knowing that if Chancellor von Schuschnigg should feel uppity enough to attempt to disarm the Heimwehr by force, Waxenberg Castle would be the first place he would search...
...undecided until the end of the last set, the Varsity tennis team edged out Pennsylvania 5-4 on the Divinity courts Saturday afternoon. With the score tied at four all until the second doubles match, E. Rotan Sargent '36 and Captain Frank W. Jones '35 snowed Friedman and Wehr under in a barrage of aces to clinch the meet with six straight games...
...years ago a strange trio landed on Charles Island. They were: 1) a lean fanatical young woman known as the Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehr-born, latterly of Vienna and Paris; 2) Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, her small, weak, tuberculous lover; 3) Robert Philippson, also a German and their common friend. In their search for an island paradise in the Pacific they had come upon Charles Island only to find it already occupied by two other romantic German couples. Arthur Wittmer and his wife, Margaret Walbrol, practicing nudists, lived with their two children in a corrugated zinc hut. Dr. Karl...