Word: wehrmacht
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Britain threatened war. On Aug. 23 Germany and Russia agreed to sign a non-aggression pact. A week after it was initialled, the Wehrmacht overran Poland. World War II had begun...
Throughout Germany the grey-green legions that once ruled Europe were now slack and disorganized in defeat-a soft, mushy mass of an army with only a few muscles of resistance. Cut in two by a U.S.-Russian meeting (see below), the Wehrmacht was all but cut into thirds and sixths. Bremen and Munich fell. The threat of a formidable national redoubt in the Alps was fast fading, and with it, the last German hope of delay...
There were little groups of men who continued to fight, who here & there formed a hard core that had to be torn apart. But actually the phase of the "pockets" seemed to be ending before it had well begun. The Wehrmacht was through. This was its death rattle...
...Admiral's Women. The Wehrmacht fought savagely in the north, where...
Doctor's Post-Mortem. Nürnberg, in whose great stadium the Nazi Party used to assemble in vain glory once a year, had been fanatically defended by Volksstürmer, remnants of the 17th SS Division, elements of 32 different Wehrmacht outfits. After five days of desperate fighting, it fell, on Hitler's 56th birthday. The town (but not the stadium) was 95% ruined. Correspondents who had followed the Allied armies across Germany all the way from Aachen said they had never seen such total destruction...