Word: wehrmacht
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Germany who arrived in Brooklyn in 1938, Mayer was an Army corporal in training in Arizona when one of Donovan's recruiters persuaded him to volunteer for something "more exciting." It was. In 1944 he parachuted into Nazi-held Austria, stole a German uniform and posed as a Wehrmacht officer while he monitored enemy troop movements. Laughs Mayer: "I was even promoted." Later, after getting a job in a Messerschmitt factory to spy on the development of German jet fighters, he was caught and tortured by the Gestapo. He managed to escape in a German staff...
Schmidt originally planned to be an architect. Instead, in 1937 at the age of 18, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served with an antiaircraft unit that fought on both the Eastern and Western fronts. After being commissioned a first lieutenant, he was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and held as a prisoner of war for six months in Belgium. Earlier, he had joined the Hitler Youth, as did every other boy in his school. His submissive stance is said to have privately troubled Schmidt in later years. Returning after the war to the devastation of Hamburg...
...almost hilarious but this book has limited appeal--you might read it because you read North Dallas Forty, in which case you won't like it as well as you like the previous book. Or you might read it because you read the sports pages and rooted for the Wehrmacht in the latest Super Bowl, in which case you won't like it all. Or you might read it because it is one of the few recent novels that deal with a peculiar and troubling section of America, and then if you don't still believe Oswald was the Lone...
...U.S.S.R.: China's military might. While Poet Yevtushenko depicts Chinese soldiers as descendants of Genghis Khan's Mongol horde, which held Russia in thrall for three centuries, the Soviet press, radio and television more commonly compare the People's Liberation Army to Hitler's invading Wehrmacht in World War II. A film frequently screened on Soviet television showed Chinese officers shouting frenzied battle cries, while fanatic soldiers performed such smashing kung-fu stunts as breaking bricks with their fists and foreheads. Pravda and Tass described alleged Nazi-like atrocities committed by Chinese in the war zone...
They were kicking around, this clone wehrmacht. Jesse Bolt has been playing Elvis for three or four years, and his girlfriend Rhyne was seeing less and less of the Jesse Bolt she knew and loved, more and more of the corpulent Memphis shaker. She tried to understand, and one day made the mistake of saying she'd give anything to understand --within the earshot of Danny O'Day. He said, "Anything?" and voila, she had cut off her long brown hair and dyed it black and was Miss Elvis Presley...