Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wehrmacht continued World War II by other means is the theme of this novel by Austrian-born Erwin Lessner. Author Lessner, 46, is an anti-Nazi from way back. For years he kept a jump ahead of the Gestapo in Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Denmark. Trapped in Norway in 1940, he was "questioned" by the Gestapo for 35 days; it was seven months before he was able to walk again. In 1941 he managed to reach the U.S. Phantom Victory is partly ferocious satire, partly deadly earnest foreboding, but throughout it proclaims Author Lessner's ruthlessly simple conviction...
...Lessner tells it, defeated Germany's main weapon was confusion. Overnight the Wehrmacht was dissolved ; not a single officer remained to offer Germany's "unconditional surrender." But veterans popped up again in strange places, such as the Brandenburg Canoe Club and the Association of Prussian Stamp Collectors. Nazi leaders vanished. The result of the long-awaited trial of German war criminals was: five Germans convicted of rape, four of cruelty to animals, five of reckless driving in congested areas. Countries ravaged by Hitler demanded the return of their looted property. They got it promptly: Austria received...
...talk about "the extension of our pastures." In 1955 continental Europe and Asia, including Russia, became German colonies. In 1960 Britain, charged with molesting a group of visiting penitents under 14 years of age, was quickly subjugated. The same year Friedolin (now revealed as a onetime general in the Wehrmacht) landed an irresistible flock in Manhattan, "this city which from today shall be named Greater Yorkville...
...corporation, if I may be permitted the word, and our strike was solid. Twenty-one days we kept it up. They put double sentries around the house. To retaliate, we put on a strip tease near the windows until the street was filled with gawking soldiers. Then the Wehrmacht Recreation Officer came with an ultimatum: back to work or out to a fish factory...
...Axis Regency of Prince Paul had been tolerated until March 1941. When it knuckled under to Hitler's demands that Yugoslavia become a German satellite, the Yugoslavs rebelled. In a bloodless coup détat they tossed out Regent Paul, installed King Peter II, 17. It took the Wehrmacht ten days to overrun the unprepared country. The British, who are believed to have inspired the coup against him, hauled Prince Paul away to South Africa, where they are still paying his Johannesburg nightclub chits. King Peter fled first to Athens, then London. But a Yugoslav colonel, Draja Mihailovich, retired...