Wehrmacht in a sentence

She did agree to return to the 1935 rally to make a film exclusively about the Wehrmacht, which became Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht (Day of Freedom: Our Armed Forces).

While information on the Wehrmacht 's use of the Krag–Jørgensen is hard to find, it must be assumed that it was issued primarily to second line units since the Wehrmacht attempted to only issue firearms in standard calibres to front line troops.

Despite its access to stealthy elite infantry, the Luftwaffe Battlegroup strengthens the core Wehrmacht playstyle rather than replacing it.

Though membership in the German Nazi party was barred to Jews, thousands joined the Luftwaffe, Wehrmacht, and Kriegsmarine in the 1930s.

Allied troops spent six bloody weeks stuck in dense hedgerows of Normandy after the D-Day landings, fighting the German Wehrmacht one cow pasture at a time.

He and a small group of approximately ten other soldiers stayed in Wörgl after the Wehrmacht had been ordered to leave.

In the months before the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, the Wehrmacht’s propagandists warned those living under German occupation that America’s armies would not be as forgiving.

There is a known order of the Wehrmacht to burn and destroy all cities and villages to deprive the enemy of a roof over their heads (Paul Karel.

But at the same time among the country’s rising political far-right - especially present in areas bordering Poland -- there is talk of rehabilitating the Wehrmacht.

I just read in the papers he left behind that he had to take part in a firing squad on his first day in the Wehrmacht.

According to the minutes of a conference at Wehrmacht High Command in March 1942, "It is only Speer's word that counts nowadays.

As Horthy was returning home on 19 March, the Wehrmacht invaded and occupied Hungary.

At the end of World War II the US Army occupied Obersalzberg, to prevent Hitler from retreating with the Wehrmacht into the mountains.

British and American air raids and artillery duels between the SS and Wehrmacht and the Red Army crippled infrastructure, such as tram services and water and power distribution, and destroyed or damaged thousands of public and private buildings.

During the entire period of the war, the OKW was led by Keitel, who reported directly to Hitler, from whom most operational orders actually originated as Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht (Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces).

During those two months the Wehrmacht had suffered a string of defeats with heavy losses.

Early regulations required that all Wehrmacht members be non-political, and therefore any Nazi member joining in the 1930s was required to resign from the Nazi Party.

East Germany The Nationale Volksarmee used a tag nearly identical to that used by both the Wehrmacht and the West German Bundeswehr.

For instance, both Waldheim and Haldweim were born in Austria in 1918 and served in the Wehrmacht in Salonica during World War II.

Frieser wrote that the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), which was created in 1938 had intended to avoid the decisive battle concepts of its predecessors and planned for a long war of exhaustion (ermattungskrieg).