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...Allies. The airlift, Korea, and the arrival of 2,500 Iron Curtain refugees brought the cold war to Pforzheim. From on high came a new occupation policy: recruit the Germans as allies. "Our so-called war criminals must be released before we can join the West," objected an ex-Wehrmacht colonel. Lascoe got U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy to come down to Pforzheim to talk to the town's leaders at an informal buffet supper (one dish: corn on the cob). They still had misgivings...
...allay French fears that German recruits might coalesce into a new nationalistic Wehrmacht, EDC will limit its national contingents to relatively' small divisional formations known as "groupements": 12,000 men apiece for armored groupements, 13,000 for infantry. The groupement will be the largest formation of men from the same country; at army corps level (i.e., three or four groupements), national units will be put into multinational commands in which French, German, Italian and Benelux staff officers will serve side by side. Probable size of the European army, when & if it is recruited: 43 groupements (14 French, 12 German...
...first time Professor Walter Hallstein visited the U.S., he was marched ashore at the point of an M1 carbine in 1944. He was a P.W., an owlish-looking Wehrmacht lieutenant captured at Cherbourg, and he was bound for the stockade at Camp Como, Miss. He didn't mind much. "It was like a monastery," he recalls, "an ideal place for study. No alcohol, no girls, no outside diversions...
Last week, a bachelor at 51, the Herr Professor was back in the U.S. But behind him this time stood the growing importance of the Bonn Republic. The Wehrmacht lieutenant was now Bonn's first Secretary of State and, in all but name, Foreign Minister of the new West German Republic. His destination was not a prison camp but Washington's Georgetown University, where he was scheduled to deliver a lecture...
...hours on July 20, 1944, Nazi Germany's fate hung on a 32-year-old Wehrmacht major named Otto Ernst Remer. On that day, believing that their plot to kill Hitler had succeeded,* the mutineers occupied the War Ministry in Berlin and flashed the code word Walkure to all Wehrmacht units. On its receipt, commanders throughout Germany were to break open sealed orders directing them to arrest Nazi and SS officials and occupy their headquarters. Germany would at last throw off Naziism...