Word: wehrmacht
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...year to as much as $7,300-turn Americans into mercenaries? Said Nixon: "We're talking about the same kind of citizen armed force America has had ever since it began, excepting only in the period when we have relied on the draft." The Pentagon itself rejects the Wehrmacht-type army, in which men spend all their professional lives in service...
...them suggest that it might have been better advertised as "the Return of the Visigoths." The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach is a paralyzed semidocumentary in which the Top 20 Bach hits are rendered by some bewigged court musicians. Signs of Life, an Antonioniesque account of the Wehrmacht in Greece in 1944, belies its title...
...hero, victor in the incredibly tenacious defenses of Moscow and Stalingrad during World War II; of cancer; in Moscow. A Pole by birth, a Communist and Russian by inclination, Rokossovsky commanded 1,000,000 men at one point, and though his losses were staggering, inflicted such casualties on the Wehrmacht that the entire course of the war was changed. Somewhat less glorious was his conduct in August 1944, when, under Stalin's orders, he refused aid to the embattled Poles during the Warsaw uprising, stood blandly by while the Germans destroyed much of the city...
Died. Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, 83, the harsh-handed Wehrmacht general who led the invasion of Norway in April 1940 and the military machine that in the next five years ruthlessly ground 10,000 Norwegians into oblivion; of a heart attack; in Holzminden, West Germany. Even in the heyday of the German blitzkrieg, Von Falkenhorst seemed in a hurry: his troops and planes crushed Norway in just 23 days, and thereafter he used firing squads against civilians and prisoners of war. For these acts he was at first condemned to death by a British military court and later given...
...cars," the Volkswagen factory made only 210 cars before it went into war production, and after V-E day it was a shambles, 60% destroyed by Allied bombs. Nordhoff, too, was part of the postwar wreckage-a lifelong German automan who, because he had manufactured trucks for the Wehrmacht, was forbidden to work in the U.S. zone at anything except manual labor...