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Last week, confronted with an enemy who had already recruited a German army of his own, and encouraged, though with some misgivings, by the Western Allies, West Germany took the first steps to raise a new Wehrmacht. It tell to a sober, pale German official named Theodor Blank to broadcast the details of a new 300,000-to 400,000-man German military machine with...
...initial hard-core cadre of 60,000 volunteers solicited from among veteran officers and noncoms of the World War II Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe...
...summer of 1944, things began to pile up on Private Karl Schleicher of Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht. German army medicine was ready and able to treat his wounded thigh after a Russian bullet had creased it, but the German supply system was not up to replacing his torn pants. Private Schleicher, turned down by his sergeant, pinched a pair for himself from the quartermaster's store, and went into battle again. In the midst of the fray he lost his unit, got back to it a week later, just in time to be arrested for pants-stealing...
...movie also goes beneath the surface of Germany in the throes of imminent defeat. It contrasts the motives of Hero Werner ("Fighting against my people now is fighting for them") and a tough Wehrmacht sergeant (Hans Christian Blech) who works for the Americans "because you're winning the war." Werner's dangerous mission behind German lines to locate the position of a Panzer army develops into an odyssey through the German state of mind. Tormented inwardly by reminders of his old loyalties, he finds despair, spiritual decay, flickering compassion, Nazi brutishness and remnants of a severe Prussian sense...
...saying much about it in public yet, but the U.S. is now considering alternatives. Officially the U.S. still opposes the re-establishment of the Wehrmacht. But if the French continue to stall, the U.S. may decide to drop the European army idea and negotiate directly with Bonn for a national German army, linked to NATO by treaty. A year ago such a move would have shocked Western Europe. Today it has some support in Britain, Belgium and The Netherlands : better an alliance of national armies than a multinational force which never gets started. The choice is up to France...