Word: wehrmacht
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...quiet suburb of Buenos Aires last week, one of Adolf Hitler's old generals held a staff conference with his top officers. Elsewhere in the city, some 200 other officers and men of the Wehrmacht Special Division R (for Russian) gathered in study groups and pored over military textbooks. By day, they were grocery clerks, railway engineers or textile workers; by night, they were heel-clicking soldiers unswervingly loyal to a general, who calls himself Arthur Holmston...
...leaders of Russia climbed the 40 marble steps to the top of Lenin's tomb, where Joseph Stalin had stood innumerable times to receive the salute of the masses-where he had stood grimly that day in November of 1941 to review the Red army while the German Wehrmacht pounded at the gates of Moscow; where he had stood triumphantly on the unforgettable day in 1945 as his army passed, and tossed the shattered banners and standards of the crushed invaders at his feet...
Since West Germany has no army, there was no semblance of a military funeral. The handful of old Wehrmacht officers who appeared wore top hats instead of their high-peaked military caps. Instead of a gun-carriage, a common horse-drawn hearse carried the coffin. Said Dr. Ernst Strasser, the officiating clergyman: "We are burying the last of the great Prussians...
...growing German influence in Egypt is best shown by the mufti-clad crew of 30 Germans that moved quietly into Cairo two years ago and, in effect, replaced the British mission to advise Egypt's army. Today its chief, Dr. Wilhelm Voss, onetime head of the Wehrmacht's Central Armaments Supply Board, sits in the office of the Minister of War & Marine (the minister: Naguib himself), bossing Egypt's Central Planning Board. Voss's men, recruited from former SS leaders, Panzer commanders and naval captains, permeate Egypt's entire military establishment-training, advising and teaching...
...question of the moment is whether abandonment of the European Army would in fact hasten German rearmament. There is no reason to believe that the French people (or their politicians) are in any greater hurry to accept a revived German Wehrmacht and a return of the German general staff, in preference to Germans-in-European-uniforms under international command. To satisfy De Gaulle would also be to antagonize Germany, for De Gaulle insists that Germany must sign a separate treaty with France agreeing to junior status and fewer troops than the French have in France. Germany also has to acknowledge...