Word: wehrmacht
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Germany's Defense Minister Heinz Kessler: "Third German to desert on the Russian front." Lead v. Gold. The man who puts the sting into Tarantel is a dapper, driving Berliner who goes by the name of Heinrich Baer. Baer has reason to hate the Communists. As a Wehrmacht corporal, he fought on the Russian front. After the war the Soviets tossed him into an internment camp for former Nazis, although he had never been a party member. When Baer was released after three years, he headed straight for West Berlin to raise money for a clandestine anti-Communist...
...Kreuznach (pop. 33,000) in Rhineland-Palatinate. In Bad Kreuznach's ornate Kurhaus, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg planned German operations on the Western Front during the last two years of World War I; from the same building, Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt directed the Wehrmacht's withdrawal from France in World War II. Last week in the salon of the Kurhaus, France's Charles de Gaulle, who fought the Germans in both wars, raised a glass of good Rhine wine and toasted West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as a "great man, a great European...
...enthusiasm. Strauss has silenced those Germans who yelled "Bellhops" at his parading recruits by junking their first U.S.-style uniforms, with Eisenhower jackets and laced shoes, and presenting his countrymen with the sight of soldiers in tightly belted tunics and clumping leather boots and officers in the old familiar Wehrmacht-style high-peaked caps...
...Colonel. Danny Kaye, in one of his funniest films, as a gentle, indestructible Polish refugee outwitting and outrunning the Wehrmacht...
...Colonel. Danny Kaye, in one of his funniest films, as a gentle, indestructible Polish refugee outwitting and outrunning the Wehrmacht...