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...Nevertheless, the rearmament of Germany is inevitable; if it is not armed as a part of a supranational army, with controls on its size and use, then it will be armed with a new national Wehrmacht...
...those new forms," Adenauer means the European Defense Community. The idea came, providentially, from France. Germans could not propose it without risking the impression that it was simply a cunning maneuver to unlock the occupation shackles and revive the Wehrmacht. But when the enemy from across the Rhine proposed it in 1950, Konrad Adenauer could more easily champion...
...decide. EDC meant several unpalatable things to Germans. Two disasters in half a century had been enough; thousands wanted never to bear arms again. On the other side, Nationalists balked at joining hands with the French, and oldtime professional soldiers seethed at the "disgrace" of banning for good the Wehrmacht and General Staff. Joining in with the West, they argued, might turn the East-West German boundary into a 38th parallel and Germany into another Korea. It might seal off forever the Communist-held lands to the East. Would it not be smarter, more comfortable, less dangerous, to stay uncommitted...
Murder. Another doctor, Edmund Leetaru, testified that after the Wehrmacht pushed the Russians back, he served on a commission that investigated Communist executions in Estonia, where the late Andrei Zhdanov was the Red overlord. The commission found some 200 corpses buried in the prison yard in the city of Tartu. Most had been shot in the back of the neck. But "several didn't have any bullet holes at all; their heads had been crushed...
...failure came in World War II when millions of Ukrainians went over to the Germans without a fight. Stupidly rejecting this free offering, the Nazis launched a mass slaughter which so aroused the survivors as to provide the Red army with a vast guerrilla underground that slashed at the Wehrmacht's rear. Khrushchev, a lieutenant general, commanded a Ukrainian guerrilla army, and won a medal for the defense of Stalingrad. Political commissar for all Russian armies on the southern front, he ruthlessly purged collaborators in city after city recaptured from the Germans. By 1947 Khrushchev was able to report...