Word: wehrmacht
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...Germans suddenly showed panicky signs of uncertainty over Denmark, where a wave of sabotage had broken out. From Sweden came reports (possibly Nazi-inspired) that the Wehrmacht had rushed in heavy reinforcements, seven infantry and two armored divisions, to bolster its position along the Danish Jutland peninsula...
...Nation's Trust. On one thing all observers agreed: German industry and morale were far from smashed. German civilians were not panicky; they were doggedly determined to carry on through this and worse to come. All Germans put their trust in their still wellarmed, well-disciplined Wehrmacht...
...thwart this plan, the Wehrmacht dipped into its reserves, last week mounted a counterattack. German infantry, tanks, bombers struck at Narva, on the Baltic Sea; at Lwów, in old Poland; in the Carpathian foothills. But the Red Army, trained well in digging in, held its gains...
...Baldwin's columns), Zaslavsky charged the foremost U.S. newspaper military expert (which he dislikes to be called) with disbelieving Soviet information, falling for Nazi misinformation. The major Zaslavsky counts: 1) prediction in 1941 of the Red Army's quick defeat; 2) assurance in September, 1942, of the Wehrmacht's victory without doubt; 3) assertions at 1944's start that Russian triumphs were due to the German necessity for great reserves in the west; 4) most recently, assertion that the Germans would hold Odessa, while Red Army columns were even then closing...
...clock began the day's main chore: conference of state, sessions of the Fascist Republican cabinet. Of the old gang, Benito Mussolini had few left. Most influential of his fellow puppets: tall, peasant-tough Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, chief organizer of the Fascist Republican Army which helps the Wehrmacht curb restive northern Italy; dapper, sensual Lawyer Alessandro Pavolini, secretary and chief organizer of the neo-Fascist Party; arrogant, church-baiting Roberto Farinacci, the boss of Cremona Province...