Word: wehrmacht
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...visit his wife, who is critically ill in a Black Forest hospital, officials of the British military prison at Werl signed a seven-day parole for ex-Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, the Wehrmacht's 63-year-old Panzer specialist, who is serving a twelve-year war crime sentence. One condition of the leave: a pledge of honor not to talk to reporters...
...Walter Paul Emil Schreiber used to be a Wehrmacht major general, and when he rose to make a speech at the Randolph Field (Texas) Officers' Club last fall, it was clear that he still saw himself as something of a hero. The U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, which was employing him, apparently saw Dr. Schreiber much as he saw himself. Its officers applauded heartily after Schreiber had finished describing his capture by the Russians (in Berlin, 1945), his four months of third degree in Moscow's Lubianka Prison, his two years of Soviet indoctrination...
Schreiber, an army doctor since World War I, had been in charge of the scientific side of the Wehrmacht medical academy in Berlin. That much was clear. So was the fact that he had worked closely with men who were later hanged or imprisoned for war crimes. According to testimony at Nürnberg, he had attended meetings where grisly experiments on human subjects were discussed. But most of the direct charges against him came from human experimenters who were trying to save their own necks...
...alive, though heartbreakingly poor, in Louvain, Belgium ... He has perhaps the unique distinction of being the last known living Latin bishop of a Russian diocese. He survived the brutalities and terrors of more than twelve years in Russian concentration camps. Following the occupation of the Baltic states by the Wehrmacht, Msgr. Sloskans was handed over to the Germans by the Russians in exchange for Russian nationals whom the Germans held prisoner. Like many of his compatriots, Bishop Sloskans fled the Russians as they moved westward in the last years of the war, and eventually wound up in Belgium...
...Zone city of Hanover. He was, he said, Franz Richter, Ph.D., a schoolmaster who had been expelled from his home in the Sudetenland by the Czechs. His papers had got lost on the long journey from the Russian front. During the war, he said, he had served as a Wehrmacht paratrooper in a company commanded by Captain Fritz Roessler. As Dr. Richter told it, Roessler had been killed in the Ukraine. He had personally helped bury him, and had promised to take care of his widow and orphaned children...