Word: wehrmacht
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...Germans managed their surrender with a skill which will plague the victors for years to come. No Wehrmacht campaign was ever planned to deadlier purpose, executed with greater cunning...
...Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, at last defeated and taken in Austria, notably broke the pattern insofar as he professed complete loyalty to Adolf Hitler, blamed defeat on both military and political bunglers. But, smiling and spruce and personally unbowed, he was a living embodiment of Wehrmacht "honor." ¶I General Kurt Dittmar, theGerman ground forces' prize analyst, was asked by his U.S. and British captors to write a speech for broadcasting to the defeated Germans. He did, but it was not used: he had composed a masterful exoneration of the Wehrmacht...
...Since midnight all weapons have been silent on all fronts . . . thus ending a heroic struggle that lasted almost six years. ... In the end the German Wehrmacht succumbed with honor to enormous superiority. . . . Every soldier . . . may lay aside his weapon proud and erect and set to work ... to safeguard the undying life of our people...
Radio Flensburg capped its performance with an astounding broadcast in the name of Field Marshal Ernst Busch, one of several German officers designated to assist in the Wehrmacht's dissolution...
...Europe drained off slowly into peace. Until five days after the official surrender there was still skirmishing by Germans too afraid of peace to submit. Then the Russians closed in, and the bitter-end Germans burrowed into forest and mountain hideouts. The fight had at last gone from the Wehrmacht...