Word: wehrmacht
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...rate between Soviet and Western marks or to buy black market herring. At the Anhalter station, where the city's food supplies from the Western zones used to roll in, before the Russians blocked the railway, only a few forlorn figures stirred-an old man in ill-fitting Wehrmacht breeches, a pasty blonde in a threadbare dress. Between the idle, rusting tracks, wisps of grass and thin white flowers sprouted...
...accused was tall, bespectacled, 51-year-old Waclaw Lipinski. His life story contained other acts of courage. In 1939, when Warsaw was besieged by the Wehrmacht, Lipinski repaired the damaged Radio Warsaw, so that it could keep broadcasting hourly bulletins and Chopin's Polonaise Militaire until the end. He escaped into Hungary, returned to Poland's underground...
France has turned fearful eyes to the north in recent months and watched German heavy industry--the life-blood of the Wehrmacht--blossom under careful tending of new American policy. But France's worries are not all founded in emotion, for sound Gallic sense recognizes the need for 19 million tons of coal this year while only 5 million tons are available. German heavy industry not only holds fears for the Frenchman in remembrance of things past, but also is the smelting furnace consuming the coal and coke needed for French recovery...
...years of intraparty intrigue. As far back as 1938, German bigwigs planned their first Putsch. In on the deal, according to Gisevius, were Chief of Staff Franz Haider, General Erwin von Witzleben and a string of other generals. Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht, Major General Hans Oster (the brains of Wehrmacht counterintelligence) and Author Gisevius himself were among the conspirators. The calendar, he says, explains why the plot failed. Putsch day was set to coincide with the march on Czechoslovakia. But Munich intervened-Nazi Germany had won a war without firing a shot, and in the face of the news most...
...Oslo, Aage Hjersing was indicted as a war collaborator. Among other charges: he gave the Wehrmacht aid & comfort by selling them 64 fine Norwegian mousers...