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...Free Germany Committee was born in Moscow more than a year ago (TIME, Aug. 2, 1943). The League of German Officers was formed shortly afterwards. Now, in a country headquarters not far from Moscow, German Communists and Wehrmacht officers sit together, plot & plan their return to Germany. Neither the U.S. nor Britain has anything to match Russia's Free Germany Committee...
Skillfully the Russians and their German comrades won over the Wehrmacht officers and men. They kept the German commanders posted, by battle map, on the steady German retreat, east & west. They worked on the tradition of Russo-German friendship among the German military cadres-a tradition implanted by Bismarck, cultivated by General Hans von Seeckt, who outwitted the Allies and armed the Reichswehr in part with the help of munitions and plane factories in Russia...
Politicians and Proselytizers. By July 1943, enough Wehrmacht men had been won over to set up the Free Germany Committee. By September, there were enough recruits to organize the League of German Officers, now a subcommittee of the National Committee. Erich Weinert was chosen chairman of Free Germany, and General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the LI Army Corps at Stalingrad, became chairman of the Officers' League. Other charter members: Wilhelm Pieck, 68, participant with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the unsuccessful Communist attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, ex-Reichstag deputy, wheelhorse of the pre-Hitler German...
...Lessner tells it, defeated Germany's main weapon was confusion. Overnight the Wehrmacht was dissolved ; not a single officer remained to offer Germany's "unconditional surrender." But veterans popped up again in strange places, such as the Brandenburg Canoe Club and the Association of Prussian Stamp Collectors. Nazi leaders vanished. The result of the long-awaited trial of German war criminals was: five Germans convicted of rape, four of cruelty to animals, five of reckless driving in congested areas. Countries ravaged by Hitler demanded the return of their looted property. They got it promptly: Austria received...
...talk about "the extension of our pastures." In 1955 continental Europe and Asia, including Russia, became German colonies. In 1960 Britain, charged with molesting a group of visiting penitents under 14 years of age, was quickly subjugated. The same year Friedolin (now revealed as a onetime general in the Wehrmacht) landed an irresistible flock in Manhattan, "this city which from today shall be named Greater Yorkville...