Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of intraparty intrigue. As far back as 1938, German bigwigs planned their first Putsch. In on the deal, according to Gisevius, were Chief of Staff Franz Haider, General Erwin von Witzleben and a string of other generals. Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht, Major General Hans Oster (the brains of Wehrmacht counterintelligence) and Author Gisevius himself were among the conspirators. The calendar, he says, explains why the plot failed. Putsch day was set to coincide with the march on Czechoslovakia. But Munich intervened-Nazi Germany had won a war without firing a shot, and in the face of the news most...
...Oslo, Aage Hjersing was indicted as a war collaborator. Among other charges: he gave the Wehrmacht aid & comfort by selling them 64 fine Norwegian mousers...
Flames suddenly flickered around one of the overheated stovepipes. In the screaming panic, a few of the dancers tried the windows. But the Wehrmacht had barred them during the war, when Loebel's was a prison-camp storehouse. The lights went out. In a terrible burst of flame, the roof collapsed...
...Wehrmacht's bars and the high value which Germans today put on their clothing cost 84 lives. Forty-four more were hospitalized, 20 were missing. It was Berlin's worst peacetime fire disaster in 100 years...
Sometimes the run of the news relegates them to obscurity. For instance, the Jack Benny cover story was ready for the printer the day the Wehrmacht moved into Poland and World War II began. That was too much competition for Comedian Benny, who was replaced by Poland's Commander in Chief Marshal Smigly-Rydz.-Pearl Harbor, which happened on a Sunday, meant a complete recasting and re-writing of the "front-of-the-book." It also meant the removal of Walt Disney's little elephant Dumbo from the forthcoming Christmas cover. Dumbo was replaced by the sterner visage...