Word: wehrmacht
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...Happened Here. The German conquest of Britain was bloody but swift. By the end of 1941 the entire island was occupied, and by 1943 the nation had been transformed into a corporate state. British industry was retooled to supply the Wehrmacht, British "volunteers" were fighting on the Russian front. Faced with a Reich that seemed likely indeed to last a thousand years, the country wavered and wondered if it might not be wiser to join the enemy it could not beat...
...also tough. When the Germans invaded Belgium in 1940, the German ambassador called on Foreign Minister Spaak to read a statement from Hitler. The German never got a chance to speak. "My turn first, Mr. Ambassador," said Spaak, before he threw the German out. Escaping from the Wehrmacht, Spaak spent the war in London as Foreign Minister of the Belgian government-in-exile...
...Bismarck and the Kaiser). When the Gestapo released him during the Götterdämmerung of the Allied advance, Adenauer trekked circuitously through the flooded Rhineland to his home at Rhöndorf, then sat out a vicious artillery duel between U.S. troops at the Remagen bridgehead and Wehrmacht gunners who were dug in directly behind his house. Walking in his garden one Sunday, Adenauer came under fire. "About 300 yards away, I saw a shell hurtling towards me," he writes. "I could gauge distances fairly well, because I knew the area intimately." Der Alte hit the dirt...
...date. Roth, who specializes in morbid-art decals for the hip trade (latest sample: a baby with sign reading "Born Dead"), sees the Iron Crosses as setting a whole new trend, and he has already followed up with an even newer vogue: plastic copies of the Wehrmacht iron helmet. Says he: "They really reach into a kid's deepest emotions." Beyond that he sees a big potential market for SS emblems and Nazi swastikas. "You know," he says expansively, "that Hitler did a helluva public relations...
...national types ranging from Italian gondoliers to U.S. cowboys, from French amorists to supranational cool-jazz combos. In a beer garden, a band of Tyrolean-hatted minstrels is cleaving the air with Bavarian bonhomie, when suddenly the guitars are spitting like machine guns, a momentary lapse into the old Wehrmacht tunes of glory. In a sight gag of suspended comic torment, a girl blowing up a balloon reduces a Buckingham Palace guard from graven aplomb to jittering hysteria...