Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least half armored or partly armored), they constitute a formidable striking force for offense or defense. They are the most pampered, best equipped units in the German Army. Their division strength is kept up to a full 17,000, as against 10,000 or less for the average Wehrmacht division...
Throwing Weight. Last week, according to the rumor mills in Switzerland and Sweden, Himmler went to the Führer's headquarters and raged against the "con servatism" of the Wehrmacht generals. In the old days, it was Hitler who raged. Last week Himmler was said to have jugged or sent to the rear one field marshal, six generals and 240 other officers accused of dickering with the Moscow-sponsored Free Germany Committee...
When SS divisions were first sent to fight in Russia, the Wehrmacht generals, who disliked both the SS and its boss, let them take some grievous losses. All that has been changed. In the battle of France the SS units were pulled back as nearly intact as possible, leaving second-rate and third-rate troops to take the beating as rearguards. The same thing happened in the battle of the Ardennes...
This organization is Moscow's National Committee of Free Germany and its Wehrmacht subsidiary, the Union of German Officers (TIME, Oct. 30). Its German brains probably are such Communist civilians as Wilhelm Pieck and Erich Weinert, who have been softening up captured German officers since the summer of 1943. But the spearheads of its appeal to the German people are two Wehrmacht aristocrats who surrendered at Stalingrad: General Walther von Seydlitz, Prussian founder of the Union of German Officers, and the union's highest-ranking member, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus...
This organization is Moscow's National Committee of Free Germany and its Wehrmacht subsidiary, the Union of German Officers (TIME, Oct. 30). Its German brains probably are such Communist civilians as Wilhelm Pieck and Erich Weinert, who have been softening up captured German officers since the summer of 1943. But the spearheads of its appeal to the German people are two Wehrmacht aristocrats who surrendered at Stalingrad: General Walther von Seydlitz, Prussian founder of the Union of German Officers, and the union's highest-ranking member, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus...