Word: wehrmacht
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diaries are fraudulent, there is no shortage of theories about who produced them and why. Money would be motive enough. The market in Hitleriana is booming: an ordinary Hitler signature on a Wehrmacht officer's commission papers sells...
...professors are "friends" of ROTC and "are interested in promoting the use of military force." But the SYL does not protest ideologues for their views, but war criminals for their deeds. "Friends of ROTC," a collection of sick Cantabrigian sociopaths is not the question. In 1939, Hitler had the Wehrmacht, but who-ever heard of the Friends of the Wehrmacht--unless it was the German-American Bund...
...minor customs official, Kohl was born on April 3 , 1930, in Ludwigshafen, an industrial city on the Rhine River. In the closing months of World War II, when the Third Reich was drafting teen-agers to fill depleted ranks of the depleted ranks of the Wehrmacht, the 15-year-old Kohl went through a basic training course in Bavaria. Advancing American troops brought his military career to an abrupt end. With only his tattered, ill-fitting uniform and not a pfennig to his name, Kohl made the 560-mile walk home to finish his schooling. Working part time...
Hitler's occupation was an ordeal with many levels of suffering. In the broadest sense, the German dictator subjugated the city and the nation it represents to demonstrate the superiority of German culture. The French had many pretty paintings to amuse vacationing Wehrmacht officers, but in the end, Paris would have become little more than a war trophy, gutted of its treasures and transformed into a provincial Nazi capital. Denied his wishes by Allied strength, Hitler wanted the city destroyed before his troops retreated...
...author reveals the hypocrisy of submission and the personal deceit practiced by Petain and his ilk. Once the Jewish extermination program was in place in 1942, the Vichy leaders had increasing difficulty explaining that concern for France justified an alliance with Hitler. Picking through conversations between Pierre Laval and Wehrmacht representatives, Pryce-Jones proves that Vichy cooperation went beyond facilitating the deportation of Jews. Laval knew that there were no "labor" camps at the end of the German train lines, but that did not concern him. His only thought was to use the twisted German racial ideology as a bargaining...