Word: wehrmacht
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...professor took a long, self-righteous swallow of wine as the students counted their pfennigs to see if they could afford another. The obese waitress--spellbound by Glaubich's erudition--beamed at him as she had at the young Wehrmacht and SS officers who were her wartime clientele. Glaubich shyly smiled back, lit another Gold Dollar cigarette, and bent over the table toward his disciples...
...GERMAN OFFICER, by Serge Groussard (218 pp.; Putnam; $3), draws a bone-bare portrait of the classic Wehrmacht officer in defeat. Promising young French Novelist Groussard follows a crippled colonel as he scrabbles among the ruins for food, stonily defends his wartime acts, and keeps his chilling faith in Holy Germany...
...took, as a matter of historic fact, more strong men than the Wehrmacht could provide. Audie took to soldiering like a shark to mullet. He was cool and quick, and when his Irish was up he laid about him like Kevin o' the Bogs. The picture makes this plain in combat scenes which could never have been napalmed off as the real thing without Audie. Credibility, burns in his mild face and gentle gestures as he moves through scenes of battle raptly, like a man reliving them with wonder and something of reverence. And just for a nervous instant...
...agents, some of whom served as German spies in World War II, are at work in Europe and Russia. Some range as far afield as Cairo, Istanbul and Madrid. Their chief, former Brigadier General Reinhard Gehlen, 52, is a slight, tight-lipped Prussian with a passion for anonymity. A Wehrmacht regular, Gehlen rose in World War II to become head of the "Enemy Army-East," the super-secret intelligence staff that evaluated the reports of a vast network of German agents ranging the Eastern front from Leningrad to the Caucasus. Because his realistic appraisals of Soviet strength clashed with Hitler...
...been a hard, bright, ambitious youngster in Hitler's Germany. His mother was half-Jewish, but somehow even this did not handicap him too much. While some of his relatives were killed in concentration camps, young Schlüter went into Hitler's Wehrmacht, won a decoration in France, was wounded and discharged, then entered the University of Göttingen as a law student...