Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time he was 27, tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), Hamburg-born Reinhold Wilhelm Johannes Pabel was a tough little article. He had served two tours with Hitler's armies on the Russian front, had been wounded, and rushed back into combat as a sergeant of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps. He had survived the German retreat from Sicily by swimming a mile to shore after his boat was sunk in the Strait of Messina, and had been badly wounded again and finally captured by U.S. forces near the Volturno River in Italy...
...Obedient Soldier. Karl Rudolph Gerd von Rundstedt was born in Ascherleben, the son of a Prussian major general. At 12, he was a military cadet; at 17, a lieutenant in Wilhelm II's army. He fought creditably on three fronts in World War I, and by 1929 was a lieutenant general. His first unsavory taste of politics came in 1932, when he was ordered by Chancellor von Papen to oust the Socialist ministers of Prussia; he obeyed. The ranking general when Hitler shortly came to power, von Rundstedt did nothing to hobble the Führer, acquiesced-however unwillingly...
...half a century Germany's diplomats and big industrialists, deep in Drang nach Osten (Drive to the East), talked of a Berlin-to-Baghdad railway. Kaiser Wilhelm II rode through the sweltering streets of Damascus one day in 1898 to tell the citizens that Moslems "may rest assured that at all times the German Emperor will be their friend." Hitler took up where Wilhelm II left off: by the time the Nazis invaded Russia, Germany was dominating the markets of Turkey and Iran...
...growing German influence in Egypt is best shown by the mufti-clad crew of 30 Germans that moved quietly into Cairo two years ago and, in effect, replaced the British mission to advise Egypt's army. Today its chief, Dr. Wilhelm Voss, onetime head of the Wehrmacht's Central Armaments Supply Board, sits in the office of the Minister of War & Marine (the minister: Naguib himself), bossing Egypt's Central Planning Board. Voss's men, recruited from former SS leaders, Panzer commanders and naval captains, permeate Egypt's entire military establishment-training, advising and teaching...
...Amarillo, Texas, Princess Cecilia of Prussia, 35, granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm, renounced her title, took her U.S.-citizenship oath and became plain Mrs. Clyde Harris, wife of an interior decorator and former Army captain whom she married in Germany...