Word: wehrmacht
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is worth fighting for? West Germans, forming a new army eleven years after the Wehrmacht's surrender, are again debating this fateful question, and the old, martial German answers no longer ring true. Last week one of West Germany's 14 Evangelical Academies-which have been holding conferences for laymen to discuss moral and social problems-considered the sanctions for war in the modern world. At Loccum, near Hannover, gathered 120 military leaders, chaplains, bankers, white collar workers and clergymen from seven countries. First speaker was the secretary-general of the German Evangelical Church's annual...
...have always lived without political passion," wrote Renault one day in 1936. "Whatever its government or opinion, I have always served my country with the same vigor ... to orient the country toward work." He visited Hitler in 1938, returned with a case of Führerism. When the Wehrmacht swept across France, Renault was in the U.S. as a member of an Allied purchasing mission. He returned home to put his factories at the service of Vichy and the Nazis, in four years made 34,232 vehicles for the Nazis. When a friend chided him for making money...
...German drive into southern Russia the following year touched off rebellions against Soviet authority in several small autonomous regions. As the Red army rolled back the Wehrmacht, Serov followed behind, liquidating "collaborationists." He deported to Siberia the entire Chechen-Ingush Republic, the Crimean Tartars, more Ukrainians. For this work he got a second Order of Lenin and a combat commander's Order of Suvorov. By war's end, his work had carried him all the way to Berlin, where he became Stalin's private eye in the Soviet Military Administration. He rounded up German atomic and rocket...
...Defense Ministry. Chairman of the council and, in effect, postwar West Germany's chief of staff will be Lieut. General Adolf Heusinger. 58. a small (5 ft. 6 in.), sandy-haired army veteran who began his career as a cadet in World War 1, rose to be Wehrmacht chief of operations in 1940, was standing at Hitler's side when the bomb exploded in the Fuhrer's East Prussian headquarters on July 20, 1944. Heusinger was a participant in the plot, although he did not know the bomb had been set for that time...
...power Norman Mailer showed in his first novel, but he wallows in the same mud-and-tears and reaches the same inevitable conclusion, i.e., war is a dirty, futile business. Adam has no heroes, only victims. The time is 1944; the place, principally occupied Hungary, as the mighty Wehrmacht comes apart at the tank sprockets. A panoramic miniaturist, Author Böll paints vignettes that are often sharp and sometimes affecting. A sergeant on a liquor foray for his C.O. finds himself on the shifting front lines, but clings to his suitcase full of Tokay until a shell mixes...