Word: wehrmacht
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Much as the Dutch like the clatter of wooden shoes on cobblestone streets, they have always detested the clicking of military heels. It reminds them of the years of Wehrmacht occupation. They would prefer the army to walk softly, the way resistance fighters did during World...
West Germany's Bundeswehr, descendant of the once mighty Wehrmacht, is filled with slovenly, long-haired draftees on 15-month hitches. As for the U.S. Seventh Army, it has been more conspicuous during the past two years for its racial battles in Frankfurt than its prowess in maneuvers. Britain's volunteer Army of the Rhine, on the other hand, is the best field force in Western Europe. But with only 50,000 men it is too small to defend Germany's vast northern plain...
...Cologne sculptor and cabinetmaker, Böll was 20 when the Munich Pact was signed in 1938. As a Wehrmacht draftee, he fought mostly on the Eastern front and was wounded four times. Later he wrote of "the f rightful fate of being a soldier and having to wish that the war might be lost...
...author whose 1949 history of archaeology, Gods, Graves and Scholars, became an international bestseller; of heart disease; in Hamburg. A book and drama critic during the early '30s, he switched to the less political field of art history when the Nazis came to power. He joined the Wehrmacht in World War II, was captured by the Americans, and developed his interest in archaeology while a prisoner of war. For Gods' publication, he reversed and Anglicized his real name, Kurt W. Marek. The book sold more than 4,000,000 copies, and "Ceram" became the byline on his later...
...Premier Pierre Mendès-France flashes on-screen recalling, in 1969, that during the 1939 "phony war," Paris ladies actually raised money for planting rose bushes along the Maginot Line-to reduce the ennui of the poilus stationed there. German newsreel footage switches from scenes of fresh, blond Wehrmacht soldiers swinging through France in 1940 to captured black French colonial troops, as a Nazi propaganda sound track mockingly quotes Neville Chamberlain: "We and our allies are the guardians of civilization against barbarism." What was your profoundest concern? a voice inquires of a now middle-aged French pharmacist who lived...