Word: wehrmacht
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Flames suddenly flickered around one of the overheated stovepipes. In the screaming panic, a few of the dancers tried the windows. But the Wehrmacht had barred them during the war, when Loebel's was a prison-camp storehouse. The lights went out. In a terrible burst of flame, the roof collapsed...
...Wehrmacht's bars and the high value which Germans today put on their clothing cost 84 lives. Forty-four more were hospitalized, 20 were missing. It was Berlin's worst peacetime fire disaster in 100 years...
Sometimes the run of the news relegates them to obscurity. For instance, the Jack Benny cover story was ready for the printer the day the Wehrmacht moved into Poland and World War II began. That was too much competition for Comedian Benny, who was replaced by Poland's Commander in Chief Marshal Smigly-Rydz.-Pearl Harbor, which happened on a Sunday, meant a complete recasting and re-writing of the "front-of-the-book." It also meant the removal of Walt Disney's little elephant Dumbo from the forthcoming Christmas cover. Dumbo was replaced by the sterner visage...
When TIME reappeared on German newsstands two months ago after seven years' absence, Journalist Peter Weidenreich thought that the blow ought to be softened. A native Berliner who left Germany for the U.S. about the time Hitler's Wehrmacht moved into Austria, became a naturalized American citizen, served with SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Division (as radio commentator and editor of German-language newspapers) in the late war, Weidenreich figured that TIME would be a stiff jolt for Germans accustomed to the controlled misinformation of Herr Gocbbels' press. To help make TIME more intelligible to German readers...
...only lost a few men (who overindulged themselves in mortar fragments). We started to level the town with artillery fire, but the Wehrmacht hospital Kommandant and the Bürgermeister finally convinced the 55 that nothing could be gained by further resistance-beyond the possible execution of a few thousand bedridden German wounded...