Word: wehrmacht
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...factory hand himself. The son of an assembly-line worker for Ford of Germany, Schmücker quit school at 16 to go into the plant himself and spent two decades working his way up through the ranks to the top job (with time out to serve as a Wehrmacht lieutenant on the Russian front). Shortly after becoming head of sales for Ford of Germany, he left to take over the tottering Rheinstahl Steel Company, and by designing and executing a major reorganization, made it so profitable that it was bought by the German conglomerate August Thyssen...
...movie summoned up more nightmares than nostalgia. For, Chantons sous I'occupation (Let's Sing under the Occupation) was an 80-minute documentary on the good life in Paris under Nazi rule in 1940-44. Interspersed among shots of Chevalier mugging and clowning were newsreels of Wehrmacht troops marching up the Champs-Elysées, the swastika fluttering on the Eiffel Tower, and German soldiers ogling nudes at the Lido nightclub. Even grimmer was the shot of the roundup of 13,000 Jews at the Velodrome d'Hiver for deportation to Nazi death camps...
...judge his country more precious than do those who know no other country well." He recalls the day in 1936, when he was 18 and working through a summer holiday as an apprentice mechanic in National Cash Register's Paris factory, that the workers heard about the Wehrmacht reoccupation of the Rhineland. Says Angleton: "The workers to a man threw down their tools and standing at attention sang the Marseillaise. Then they streamed into the street, cursing the government. I stayed up all night, listening to the furious talk of the workers in the bistros. It was my first...
...built factories, drive Fiat-designed autos called Zhigulis, and wear clothes made from fibers spun in a British-designed plant. Soon they will watch color television developed by France's Thomson Co. The West Germans plan to help build a $1 billion steel complex at Kursk, where the Wehrmacht, ironically, suffered defeat in the biggest tank battle of World War II. When West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow this week, he and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev may discuss plans for a project to build a generating plant in Kaliningrad, on the Baltic, that would supply electricity...
...Hamburg schoolteacher, Schmidt joined the Hitler Youth when the Nazis came to power in 1933 and later served as an artillery battery commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II until he was captured by the British. After the war, he studied economics at the University of Hamurg, where he was a star pupil of Karl Schiller, who later served as Brandt's first Finance Minister. Schmidt entered politics while still a student and became leader of the German Socialist Student Union, precursor of today's vociferous, left-wing Young Socialists (Jusos). He won a seat...