Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goebbels visited the Berlin workers' district to inspect bomb damage, Hans, dressed up in a Hitler Jugend uniform, proudly presented the Doktor with a bunch of forget-me-nots. Big Brother Joachim joined the Hitler Jugend at ten and became a Grup-penführer before entering the Wehrmacht. Sister Ursula served in the girls' branch of the Hitler Youth, collecting tin foil, warm clothes for soldiers on the eastern front and funds for winter relief...
...recent meetings of the Control Council, zonal government showed at its worst. Marshal Georgi Zhukov calmly declared that while he really trusted the British, he could not understand the presence in the British zone of entire German Wehrmacht units under German officers. Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery retorted testily that Zhukov's facts were inaccurate. The question was shelved, leaving a bad taste all around...
...first witness. To the microphone came a tall, cadaverous-looking man whose bald head shone brightly under the floodlights; dark glasses and earphones gave him a horror-story air. He was Major General Erwin Lahousen, aide to the late, little-known Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Wehrmacht's counterintelligence. After the unsuccessful bomb attempt on the Führer's life in July 1944, Canaris was slowly strangled with piano wire...
...ordinary duties as a soldier.) As Lahousen spoke, he squirmed uncomfortably. Earlier in the trial, he had complained to his colleague Colonel General Alfred Jodl: "The court just doesn't seem to realize the principle of 'orders are orders.' . . . It's not up to the Wehrmacht staff to question the Führer principle. If we did, we would have a bunch of firemen, not a Wehrmacht...
...told his interrogators that in 1938 the Wehrmacht had only 21 divisions, including two Panzer divisions. The Czechs had 45 well-trained divisions behind a fortified belt newer and better than the Maginot Line. Said Halder, he and his colleagues concluded that if war came, the German prospect was "nothing less than catastrophic...