Word: wehrmacht
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...power plant was found undamaged, thanks to its manager, who tricked the Wehrmacht into thinking he had sabotaged its essential parts. A newspaper printing plant had also survived, would soon be turning out an M.G. edition...
Virginibus Puerisque. It was a fair enough start, but the hardest work lay ahead. Members of the Wehrmacht who had changed into civilian clothes had to be rounded up. Somehow, the children would have to be re-educated. Then there was the problem of sifting out the Nazis. Later, the problem of a Nazi underground might also arise...
Colonel General Heinz Guderian, Chief of Staff of the Wehrmacht and commander on the eastern front, rasped that conditions were "well nigh intolerable...
...Remagen "accident," as Berlin angrily called it, was in sharp contrast with the well-handled withdrawal at Wesel. Resurgent Allied optimists who now predicted the war's end in a few weeks might possibly be right-but in the meantime it was well to remember that the Wehrmacht had been routed and broken last summer in White Russia and in France. It had recovered from both routs...
Only around the rim of the Bohemian bastion were Wehrmacht divisions on the offensive. Probable German objective: to hold this natural fortress for a last fanatical stand...