Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When TIME reappeared on German newsstands two months ago after seven years' absence, Journalist Peter Weidenreich thought that the blow ought to be softened. A native Berliner who left Germany for the U.S. about the time Hitler's Wehrmacht moved into Austria, became a naturalized American citizen, served with SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Division (as radio commentator and editor of German-language newspapers) in the late war, Weidenreich figured that TIME would be a stiff jolt for Germans accustomed to the controlled misinformation of Herr Gocbbels' press. To help make TIME more intelligible to German readers...
...interest your Aug. 5 column of social notes from Tegernsee. Two summers ago, our outfit [A-Co., 141st Inf., 36th Div.] was entertained briefly on the shores of the lovely "indigo" lake-a"small, intimate affair sponsored by a group of 55 troopers, and watched by about 5,000 Wehrmacht convalescent wounded...
...only lost a few men (who overindulged themselves in mortar fragments). We started to level the town with artillery fire, but the Wehrmacht hospital Kommandant and the Bürgermeister finally convinced the 55 that nothing could be gained by further resistance-beyond the possible execution of a few thousand bedridden German wounded...
...reporters moved out over the Saxony plains to a great cluster of tall smokestacks marking the Buna plant built by I. G. Farben in 1936 to supply the Wehrmacht's synthetic rubber tires. The plant manager told them that while there had been 11,000 workers at the end of the war, there were now 9,000, producing 1,500 tons of rubber monthly, about 60% of the peak of war production...
...London, Serge Lifar had two strikes against him. He had had a bad wartime record-he put on shows for Wehrmacht officers during the occupation, and had been jailed as a collaborationist. Then, probably because he thinks of himself as the one man who can fill Nijinsky's pink tights, he had chosen to appear in the narcissistic Afternoon of a Faun, the ballet which combines almost everything that most non-balletomanes dislike about ballet...