Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undertaking was Lawrence Stallings' The First World War, which ran for seven reels and consumed about all the good photographic material available on World War I. MOT Producer Richard de Rochemont had a first-hand acquaintance with World War II as European manager of MOT - until the German Wehrmacht ran him out of Paris - and as a SHAEF correspondent during the battle for Europe. His associate producer, Arthur Tourtellot, had served his wartime hitch in the Coast Guard. Between them, with the aid of ex-U.S. Marine sergeant and MOT Scriptwriter Fred Feldkamp, and a big crew...
...issue TIME'S editors introduced a new, occasional department, Background For War, dedicated to the proposition that world war was close at hand and that you would understand it better if we reviewed the events which led up to it. The week the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland Background gave way to another new department, World War. As the war progressed we added Army & Navy and World Battlefronts, changed National Affairs to U.S. At War, dropped World War and, when the end was in sight, introduced International as the correct department for all of the events which would then...
...Russian intentions for Eastern Germany was fitting together. At first there had been only isolated clues-the wing of a prison converted into barracks at Dessau, an order for 5,000 shoulder insignia of the old German style, the sight of men marching and drilling on a onetime Wehrmacht training field near Rostock. Then the evidence came faster. The Russians were busily organizing a military "police" force of a quarter of a million Germans, almost twice as large as the entire force of pre-Hitler Germany...
...Labor. Besides a nominal tuition fee, students must contribute two days of manual labor each semester to clearing away rubble and doing repair work. The winter term (which used to run until March) now starts earlier, stops at Christmas. With not enough coal to heat classrooms, students wear dyed Wehrmacht overcoats to cold-weather lectures; a chilling wind seeps through the cracks or whistles through the holes in bombed-out walls. (Windows are fixed with "Hitler glass," a kind of cellophane Hallstein acidly describes as "one of the big gifts this man gave to the German people.") The rector...
Died. Field Marshal Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch, 67, onetime commander in chief of the German army (1938-41); of coronary thrombosis; in Hamburg, Germany, where he awaited trial as a war criminal. Son of a Prussian cavalry general, Brauchitsch increased the Wehrmacht's motorized divisions from two to six, occupied the Sudetenland, led the 18-day blitz of Poland, took Norway, Belgium, Holland, France, Yugoslavia and Greece...