Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...savage fight for Walcheren Island, key to Antwerp (TIME, Nov. 13), had an almost comic ending when fussy little Lieut. General Wilhelm Daser, commander of the Wehrmacht's 70th (White Bread) Division, suddenly made up his mind to surrender...
Then they played their defense trump: the Allies had been broadcasting appeals to civilians to help German soldiers desert; Hogen and Packbier were only following General Eisenhower's instructions; the three soldiers were trying to desert from the Wehrmacht...
...first sizable town on the rail line to Königsberg, Chern-yakhovsky ran into progressively stronger defenses-trenches, minefields, barbed wire. Every settlement was a fortress, every house and hillock a gun position. Heinrich Himmler's Home Army units were easily killed or captured, but the Wehrmacht traded punch for punch...
...been four and a half years since the Wehrmacht swooped down on thunderstruck Norway in April 1940. Now, as the Nazi sun was sinking, the first little sliver of Norway was freed. Last week, far north in the Arctic, where Norway borders on Finland, the Russians pounded over the line in pursuit of the Germans, then took over the iron-ore port of Kirkenes, used by the Germans as a submarine and air base against the Allied northern sea route to Russia, and fought on some 15 miles westward...
When the U.S. flag went up over Aachen, the Allied Military Government announced that there would be no "coddling" of German civilians camping in the vicinity. They must buy their own food from local farm supplies or sign chits to the A.M.G. for stores left by the Wehrmacht. Rubble would be cleared from the streets to ease military traffic and a military telephone service restored; beyond that no Allied restoration was contemplated...