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wehrmacht
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The Wehrmacht (, lit. "Defence Force") was the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1946. It consisted of the Heer ( army ), the Kriegsmarine ( navy ) and the Luftwaffe ( air force ). The designation Wehrmacht for Nazi Germany's military replaced ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the armed forces of Germany," 1935, from German Wehrmacht (name of the armed forces 1921-1945), from Wehr "defense" (see weir ) + Macht "might" (see might (n.)).
Usage examples of wehrmacht.
Being honest Wehrmacht footsloggers, they did not like the SS, and they did not like moustaches.
The workhorse of the Wehrmacht remained the Mark IV medium tank, with 850 of them around the Kursk salient.
CHAPTER 4 June 30 2150 hours Wehrmacht train moving east Treblinka, Poland Luis Ruiz de Vega lifted a hand to snare the attention of a passing waiter.
June 30 2220 hours Wehrmacht train moving east Luis went into the bathroom of the train car.
Luis felt a twinge of vexation at this Wehrmacht officer, who carried on him as extra all the weight Luis had sacrificed, who cowered in his compartment until even that became unsafe, while others SS men all ran ahead into the dark to engage the enemy.
Hitler backer and Edsel Ford continued the family tradition in 1942 by encouraging French Ford to profit from arming the German Wehrmacht, Subsequently, these Ford-produced vehicles were used against American soldiers as they landed in France in 1944.
In Arnhem, the Reverend Reinhold Dijker spotted boisterous Wehrmacht troops on a truck drinking from a huge vat of wine which they had apparently brought all the way from France.
One of them was 57-year-old Lieutenant General Kurt Dittmar, a Wehrmacht officer who had daily broadcast the latest communiques from the front, and who was known throughout the Reich as the “voice of the German High Command.
Heidi was an orphan so Sigmund Boldt gave her away, and there were a dozen or so of Heidi's friends, most of them her superiors and colleagues in the Ministry of Propaganda and Information, but there were others, her cousins and more distant relatives in the black dress uniforms of the elite SS divisions, or the blue of the Luftwaffe or the field grey of the Wehrmacht, and pretty girls, some of them in the traditional peasant-style dirndls of which the Nazi Party so strongly approved.
The Wehrmacht is becoming stingier all the time about this, just as it won't ever provide enough soldiers to cordon off a work area.
Hans von Kluge's panzer grenadiers, men wearing the feldgrau of the Wehrmacht.
Now the Wehrmacht made a habit of posting the light guns as far forward as possible, to hold helicopters at bay.
He was quite a character, a thirty-five-year-old Prussian who had almost set the record for advancement in the Wehrmacht.
He had done that before, though, with captured samovar sets in steppe towns and collective farms overrun by the Wehrmacht.