Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Party's End. British tanks and infantry rounded up smaller fry, seizing arrogant Wehrmacht officers' sidearms, ending the gay parties that had been held in the Admiral's schoolhouse compound. Soldiers from Norway and Denmark strode about Flensburg, boasting: "We were never beaten." A British sergeant knocked one of them down, and said: "Well, you've been beaten now." Disarmed marines were marched through the streets, still singing We Sail against England...
G.S.C. survived World War I with scarcely a bobble. The Allies considerately allowed a small (100,000) German army to guard Germany against internal disorder. G.S.C. smoothly converted this "police force" into a miniature Wehrmacht, complete with all the old organizational ideas and hospitable to new ones...
...minds inside the bullet heads of the Wehrmacht officers hit the receptive mind of the U.S. captain with the impact of a robomb. German officers,* he found, were less flexible than U.S. military men. But they lived, breathed and dreamed war. They understood war as politics and peace as politics...
Later the War Department frisked Wedemeyer's memory for tidbits about Hitler, Göring, Goebbels and other Nazis. It showed scant interest in his incisive opinions about the Wehrmacht's masterminds and master weapons. Only one man took the captain's technical report seriously-Brigadier General George Marshall, then assistant chief of staff of the War Plans Division. Marshall had a long talk with the military student from Germany. When he became Chief of Staff, he remembered Wedemeyer...
...plete contrast to his previous attitude, which had always been: 'We will fight to the last tip of the German Reich.' "What reasons motivated his change of heart no one knows. He expressed the fact that his confidence was shaken. He had lost confidence in the Wehrmacht quite a while ago, saying that he had not gotten true reports, that bad news had been withheld from him. This afternoon he said that he was losing confidence in the Waffen SS, for the first time. He had always counted on the Waffen SS as elite troops which would never...