Word: wehrmacht
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Strauss has explained to Western officials that the home army will not get rolling until Germany's NATO contribution is well started, will probably ask for approval from its Western European Union allies, some of whom still get nervous at the thought of a new Wehrmacht under strictly German control...
Sisyphusisme soon proved to be cold stoic comfort to pit against the Wehrmacht and Gestapomen of World War II. Confronted with the Hitler terror, Camus cried "What values did we have . . . which we could oppose to his negation? None." In The Plague (1947), a parable of the Resistance couched in terms of a city under sentence of bubonic death, Camus voiced his social ethic: "All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us . . . not to join forces with the pestilences." In The Rebel (1952), Camus turned...
...with the Wehrmacht at the English Channel, and beleaguered Britain waiting seemingly helpless and hopeless on the other side, Germany's Minister to Portugal sent an encouraging telegram to his boss in Berlin, Foreign Minister and ex-champagne salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Duke of Windsor, Britain's ex-King Edward VIII, it said, was ready and eager to return home with his American wife to reclaim the throne of Britain for both of them. To bring this about, the message went on, there were two possibilities: either England would urge him to come back, which Windsor considered...
...only the lucky who live. Some men, without being cowards, display an extraordinary knack for survival. Such a one is Gunner Herbert Asch, the fictional Wehrmacht veteran who for six years of World War II managed to escape the enemy's bullets and the stupidity of his own commanders. Asch survived, not as the anvil survives the hammer, but as a nimble, highly intelligent fly eludes the clumsy hand that would kill it. For Asch is a true operator, a hepcat of war who knows every nuance of the dance of death and leaves it to the squares...
...leave his brilliance unsung. They are held together by the conflict between his professional conscience and personal consciousness. Rommel, who believed, "My function in life...to carry out the orders of my superiors," comes to realize that Hitler is a madman whose meddling can only bring disaster to the Wehrmacht. His private doubts eventually undermine the traditional sense of duty of his caste when he sees that obedience is forcing him to violate the proud...