Word: wehrmacht
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...interest your Aug. 5 column of social notes from Tegernsee. Two summers ago, our outfit [A-Co., 141st Inf., 36th Div.] was entertained briefly on the shores of the lovely "indigo" lake-a"small, intimate affair sponsored by a group of 55 troopers, and watched by about 5,000 Wehrmacht convalescent wounded...
...reporters moved out over the Saxony plains to a great cluster of tall smokestacks marking the Buna plant built by I. G. Farben in 1936 to supply the Wehrmacht's synthetic rubber tires. The plant manager told them that while there had been 11,000 workers at the end of the war, there were now 9,000, producing 1,500 tons of rubber monthly, about 60% of the peak of war production...
...London, Serge Lifar had two strikes against him. He had had a bad wartime record-he put on shows for Wehrmacht officers during the occupation, and had been jailed as a collaborationist. Then, probably because he thinks of himself as the one man who can fill Nijinsky's pink tights, he had chosen to appear in the narcissistic Afternoon of a Faun, the ballet which combines almost everything that most non-balletomanes dislike about ballet...
...hour. But there was serious doubt about how effective seizure would be. In 1943's seizure, miners had gone back to work after a plea by Franklin Roosevelt. But that was in wartime. In peacetime, the best disciplined union in the U.S.-an organization which makes the oldtime Wehrmacht look like a bunch of uncontrolled anarchists-would probably listen only to John Llewellyn Lewis...
Colonel General Jodl and Grand Admiral Raeder, soon to make their own defenses, nodded solemn approval. Couldn't the Wehrmacht, asked Britain's cool Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, produce a general with the "courage to stand up and oppose cold-blooded murder...