Word: wehrmacht
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...more dramatic and specific than this blurry photograph was a series of drawings made by Artist Theo Matejko for the official German Army journal Die Wehrmacht. They represented "official German eyewitness accounts" of the bombing of Ark Royal during an air raid on the British Home Fleet in the North Sea last September. Official British report by Prime Minister Chamberlain: "No British ship was damaged. . . . All of them, Ark Royal included, are carrying out their normal duties, sublimely unconscious of these rumors...
...armed forces of the Republic, which he called the Wehrmacht (defence force), he had also a message...
...German people have placed me at the head of the Reich. According to the Constitution, I take over this day the chief command of the Wehrmacht. I greet the Army and Navy with pride...