Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour. But there was serious doubt about how effective seizure would be. In 1943's seizure, miners had gone back to work after a plea by Franklin Roosevelt. But that was in wartime. In peacetime, the best disciplined union in the U.S.-an organization which makes the oldtime Wehrmacht look like a bunch of uncontrolled anarchists-would probably listen only to John Llewellyn Lewis...
...faced the court at Nürnberg last week. In Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel's defense, there was none of Hermann Göring's brilliant, bravura justification of Naziism. Like sweating, terrified Ribbentrop, who testified before him-but in a very different manner-the once proud Wehrmacht chief hid behind his Führer's back...
Colonel General Jodl and Grand Admiral Raeder, soon to make their own defenses, nodded solemn approval. Couldn't the Wehrmacht, asked Britain's cool Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, produce a general with the "courage to stand up and oppose cold-blooded murder...
Died. Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, 67, who as Hitler's first Minister of War began to build up the almost-all-conquering Wehrmacht; of a heart attack; in Nürnberg. In 1938, ostensibly because he married his "socially impossible" stenographer, ardent Nazi von Blomberg lost his job at the insistence of the Officer Corps, spent World War II on Capri in retirement...
Background For War ran its course through the turbulent spring and summer of 1939 and, excepting one later installment, gave way to another new department called World War the week the Wehrmacht invaded Poland. (This drew the wrath of many of you for presuming, you said, to call it a world war.) As the war progressed we added Army & Navy and World Battlefronts, changed National Affairs to U.S. at War, dropped World War and, when the end was in sight, introduced International as the correct repository for news of the peace to come, of UNO, and of all the events...