Word: wehrmacht
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...then, in getting involved in an "imperialist" war. Better stand aside, and in due course social revolution would undo Hitler's conquests. Nor, it is worth recalling, was it the inherent fatuity of this position which led them to change their attitude, but only the march of the Wehrmacht into Russia...
...provide clothing for the pitifully under-equipped Greek army. The army stopped the Duce's Fascists cold, Frederika's clothing drive was a huge success, and both won new respect in the eyes of the Greek people. Then, early irf the next year, Hitler sent the Wehrmacht into Greece. The royal family was forced to flee, first to Crete (where bombs rained about Frederika's curly head), then to Egypt (where fat King Farouk tried in a cursory way to seduce her), and finally to South Africa, where Frederika's third child. Irene, was born...
...have an unsettling effect on the delicate balance of Greek politics. Frederika's personal charm and many good works had gone far in Greece to wipe out the stain of her German past and the fact that three of her brothers were officers in Hitler's Wehrmacht. Her Teutonic inclination toward rigid government was not so easy to erase. Like most of her ancestors, Frederika firmly believed that monarchs should rule their countries...
...criminals and sentenced to punishment in Soviet jails and labor camps. Those who came home through Herleshausen last week in batches of 400 to 500 a day were the "war criminals." In one shipment, the Russians sent back eleven generals,* but most of the returning P.W.s were soldiers of Wehrmacht and SS battalions which fought in Russia...
...years in prison, the bishop had "confessed" to such crimes as treason, spying for the U.S. and the Vatican-more than enough to hang him for, if he were really guilty. ¶ British officials in Germany paid 22,500 Deutsche Mark ($5,357) damages to Hans Klose, an ex-Wehrmacht private who was captured by the British and turned over to the Russians for five years' imprisonment on the mistaken impression that he was a former Abwehr officer (TIME, June 1). A British court which tried Klose's suit for mistaken arrest placed the blame for the error...