Word: wehrmacht
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...took care of it by hurrying to the Gestapo, reporting his neighbor for Wehrmachtzersetzung-corruption of the Wehrmacht. Mueller's widow paid the execution bill: 474½ marks, including 175 for the gallows, twelve for the rope, eight pfennigs for notification of the verdict...
Thomas Mann, the greatest living German writer, is examining Germany's war guilt. He can do what neither Edmund Burke nor Nürnberg's Robert H. Jackson dared-indict a whole people. The evil that lay beneath the Wehrmacht, and the Nazi Party, and the factories, endures. The victors, who underestimated and misunderstood the evil, cannot extirpate it by battle, or military rule or reparations, or trial & punishment. They cannot even limit it until they understand it. So Thomas Mann, now a U.S. citizen, has written of "Germany and the Germans," in the current Yale Review...
They went abroad together for the first time in the fall of 1939 as the German Wehrmacht was slicing up Poland. Shelley worked in Sweden while her husband photographed the misbegotten Russo-Finnish war. She was in Portugal on the "balcony of Europe" when France fell. Eight months later she was in China, finding and setting up stories for her husband, placating unwilling camera subjects, dodging Japanese bombs and shellfire, writing her own copy. They got to Burma and Singapore ahead of the Japs, taking pictures and writing stories. Then they went to Manila-in October...
...Goebbels visited the Berlin workers' district to inspect bomb damage, Hans, dressed up in a Hitler Jugend uniform, proudly presented the Doktor with a bunch of forget-me-nots. Big Brother Joachim joined the Hitler Jugend at ten and became a Grup-penführer before entering the Wehrmacht. Sister Ursula served in the girls' branch of the Hitler Youth, collecting tin foil, warm clothes for soldiers on the eastern front and funds for winter relief...
...recent meetings of the Control Council, zonal government showed at its worst. Marshal Georgi Zhukov calmly declared that while he really trusted the British, he could not understand the presence in the British zone of entire German Wehrmacht units under German officers. Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery retorted testily that Zhukov's facts were inaccurate. The question was shelved, leaving a bad taste all around...