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...faced the court at Nürnberg last week. In Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel's defense, there was none of Hermann Göring's brilliant, bravura justification of Naziism. Like sweating, terrified Ribbentrop, who testified before him-but in a very different manner-the once proud Wehrmacht chief hid behind his Führer's back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Excuses | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Died. Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, 67, who as Hitler's first Minister of War began to build up the almost-all-conquering Wehrmacht; of a heart attack; in Nürnberg. In 1938, ostensibly because he married his "socially impossible" stenographer, ardent Nazi von Blomberg lost his job at the insistence of the Officer Corps, spent World War II on Capri in retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Background For War ran its course through the turbulent spring and summer of 1939 and, excepting one later installment, gave way to another new department called World War the week the Wehrmacht invaded Poland. (This drew the wrath of many of you for presuming, you said, to call it a world war.) As the war progressed we added Army & Navy and World Battlefronts, changed National Affairs to U.S. at War, dropped World War and, when the end was in sight, introduced International as the correct repository for news of the peace to come, of UNO, and of all the events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...strike on the Buna works at Hüls, never repeated, showed the vulnerability of the German rubber industry by reducing the Wehrmacht's stock of tires to six weeks' supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: On Second Thought | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...biggest day came soon after the Remagen bridge was taken. Another Allied force had secured a bridgehead near Andernach. Between these two points, Nazi troops in the Eifel mountains had ample room for retreat. Yet because Annie hinted that there was only one way out, most of the remaining Wehrmacht marched right into an Allied ambush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Operation Annie | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

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