Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Free Germany Committee was born in Moscow more than a year ago (TIME, Aug. 2, 1943). The League of German Officers was formed shortly afterwards. Now, in a country headquarters not far from Moscow, German Communists and Wehrmacht officers sit together, plot & plan their return to Germany. Neither the U.S. nor Britain has anything to match Russia's Free Germany Committee...
Skillfully the Russians and their German comrades won over the Wehrmacht officers and men. They kept the German commanders posted, by battle map, on the steady German retreat, east & west. They worked on the tradition of Russo-German friendship among the German military cadres-a tradition implanted by Bismarck, cultivated by General Hans von Seeckt, who outwitted the Allies and armed the Reichswehr in part with the help of munitions and plane factories in Russia...
Politicians and Proselytizers. By July 1943, enough Wehrmacht men had been won over to set up the Free Germany Committee. By September, there were enough recruits to organize the League of German Officers, now a subcommittee of the National Committee. Erich Weinert was chosen chairman of Free Germany, and General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the LI Army Corps at Stalingrad, became chairman of the Officers' League. Other charter members: Wilhelm Pieck, 68, participant with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the unsuccessful Communist attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, ex-Reichstag deputy, wheelhorse of the pre-Hitler German...
...front in East Prussia, Free German propagandists with the Red Army microphone their ex-comrades to surrender. They helped soften the Wehrmacht for last summer's great defeat in White Russia. After that debacle, 17 Wehrmacht generals, including Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, commander of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad, joined the Free Germans...
Says General von Seydlitz: "Our intentions are to lead the Wehrmacht to the frontiers of Germany and to preserve it for the people. An honorable peace can be in store only for a people whose Wehrmacht is not disintegrated...