Word: wehrmacht
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...Tiber's west bank, behind the gates of the Vatican, Pope Pius XII, silent and aloof, is a virtual prisoner of the Nazis. The Wehrmacht polices the Vatican's entrances and exits, even struts across the colonnaded piazza of St. Peter. The tall, picturesque Swiss Guards, organized by Pope Julius II in 1505, have put aside their ancient halberds for modern rifles...
First Front. Russia was still the first front, massive and man-consuming. The Wehrmacht found no rest at the Dnieper, only more blood, battle and bafflement. The Red Army crunched through Zaporozhe, grappled fiercely for Gomel, Kiev and Melitopol, crashed through the German lines between the key cities, battered at the flank of the enemy's Dnieper loop, threatened with disaster his powerful forces in the Crimea...
...postwar design for Germany. By a calculated series of statements from Moscow, the U.S.S.R. has cultivated what would once have been denounced as an "anti-Soviet" suspicion-the suspicion that the Red Army may halt its advance on or near Russia's borders and free the German Wehrmacht for the defense of western and southern Europe...
...Army, know that Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin are solidly on record against any peace with the Nazi regime. Russia, in its sponsorship of the National Committee of Free Germany and the German Officers' Union (TIME, Oct. 4), seems willing to make conditional peace with any Wehrmacht generals' regime that kicks out the top Nazis. To many a Wehrmacht general the Russian offer makes sense.* But it can be accepted only by an Army revolt. Hitler's strongest man in the way of such an anti-Nazi Putsch is Heinrich Himmler -supreme boss of the German home front...
...Blackshirts. In his SS, Himmler has 600,000 troops and about 20 air squadrons, magnificently equipped, passionately devoted to him and their mission. A few of these divisions have been used as shock troops by Wehrmacht generals who despise and fear the SS. Some have been almost entirely wiped...