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‖ Wehrmacht Now Hist.|ˈveːrmaxt|
[Ger., lit. ‘defence force’.]
The name used for the German armed forces between 1921 and 1945. Also attrib.
1935in Documents on German Foreign Policy (1959) III. 1008 Ranks and badges of rank of the members of the Reich Air Ministry..will assume a military character and resemble those of the Wehrmacht. 1945Daily Mirror 8 May 3/2 The Wehrmacht commander announced that he did not recognise what he described as the ‘armistice’. 1945‘G. Orwell’ in Tribune 9 Nov. 10/3 He..attempted to pass himself off as an ordinary soldier of the Wehrmacht. 1959M. Crosland tr. J. Rovan's Germany 176 Young Germans..begin travelling around the country armed with a stewpan and an old Wehrmacht kitbag. 1965English Studies XLVI. 226 The Wehrmacht mentality is plain, the terrible joyous uplift in the fact of killing, the terrible satisfaction to be extracted from a sense of the irresistible. 1978L. Heren Growing up on The Times vii. 257 Of all the armies which fought in the second world war, the Wehrmacht was undoubtedly the best, perhaps the best in history. |