Word: wehrmacht
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...Wehrmacht officers learned months ago that their swagger Mercedés-Benz staff cars were death traps in occupied Russian territory: guerrilla snipers gave special attention to these chariots of the mighty. In dangerous territory Nazi officers prudently changed to the cramped obscurity of flivver Volkswagen. But Gestapo officials persisted in riding in the style to which they were accustomed...
Last week a tale leaked from Germany through London which must have given the Wehrmacht a sardonic laugh. In their glittering Mercedés, two top-notch Gestapomen were found bullet-riddled far behind the battle line...
...uneasy New Year for Adolf Hitler. Something was rotten in the German Army. The Führer had just relieved Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch from his command (TIME, Dec. 29) and was now, in fact as well as title, the Oberste Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht (Supreme Commander of the Army). But the Oberste Befehlshaber could scarcely have felt as magnificent as his title...
...over occupied Europe the food situation was growing worse. Nazi plundering to keep the Wehrmacht fed was felt more than ever by the occupied countries. As the Wehrmacht marches on its stomach, so does anti-Nazi terrorism. It takes food to make the first fight, hunger to make the latter...
...Army to try to slug toe-to-toe with the Wehrmacht, said they, would be fatal. The Red Army would be annihilated within three months. Last week the Red Army was still only partly annihilated, and the rest of it was still slugging. Even Berlin reported its resistance "unbelievable," spoke with hurt surprise of new Russian opposition. On three colossal fronts the Red Army was not only taking punishment but giving...