| 单词 | black army |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBlack Army Black Army n. [after German Schwarze Reichswehr (1923 or earlier)] now historical (a collective term for) the militias established in the Weimar Republic after the First World War (1914–18) in order to circumvent the restrictions placed on the size of the German army by the Treaty of Versailles (cf. free corps n. at free adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1923 Boston Daily Globe 2 Oct. 23/7 The ‘Black Reichswehr’..—Nationalist groups which had nuclei throughout Germany for months—are now growing so fast it is no longer possible to control them.] 1924 Daily Mail 10 June 7/7 The term ‘Black Army’ is used first for members of the organisations who keep their arms in their homes, like the Swiss militia, or in carefully hidden arsenals, and, secondly, for troops who are organised in regular army fashion. 1945 Los Angeles Times 25 Sept. ii. 4/6 He gave assurances that the Reichswehr and the Black army would throw the Poles back beyond the prewar frontier. 1977 Central European Hist. 10 128 Rossbach..was an organizer of the ‘black army’ (commonly known as Black Reichswehr) which Saxony, Prussia, and Thuringia had encountered during their attempts to outlaw the racist German People's Freedom Party. 1996 R. Kimber & R. Kimber tr. K. Kreimeier Ufa Story (1999) xv. 174 Other advance troops of the ‘conservative revolution’—from the Free Corps to the Black Army of the Reich..—had long been prepared to march on into a Führer's state. < as lemmas |
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