By Gordon Williamson, Stephen Andrew
Regardless of being disdained by means of the German Army’s specialist officer corps, the army department of the Nazi SS defense business enterprise grew from an preliminary power of just a handful of battalions on the outbreak of struggle in 1939 to thousands of troops in dozens of divisions. The battlefield popularity of the optimum armoured and mechanised divisions could turn into moment to none; lavishly built and thought of as totally trustworthy, they have been thrown into many determined battles on either Western and jap fronts, usually reaching extraordinary effects. Illustrated with infrequent photos, this primary of 4 Men-at-Arms titles info the company, uniforms and insignia of the Waffen-SS.
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52 GERMANY'S COLONISATION PARTNERS The fact that there was no recognition on our side of the need for tanks, or at least for an anti-tank defence, is the explanation of our defeat. Bolshevism will collapse likewise for lack of anti-tank weapons. On the other hand, the spring offensive in 1918 was premature. A month later the ground would have been dry and the meteorological conditions favourable. The terrain was likewise ill-chosen. How absurd, too, to have abandoned the agreed plan simply because, in the course of the operation, attention was incidentally drawn to Paris !
They can confine themselves to twenty-minute one- THE KAISER IN 1 9 1 4 - 1 8 WAR 51 reelers, but these must be the result of intelligent work. The worst habit of all has been to restrict the films to thirty-foot strips, whatever the subject might be: an earthquake, a tennis match, a horse-race, the launching of a ship. 33 loth October 1941, midday Fighting for open spaces—The flow back from West to East —Christianity and natural selection. War has returned to its primitive form. The war of people against people is giving place to another war—a war for the possession of the great spaces.
He's to be shot immediately. The prosecutor usually demands the death penalty, but the judges, when in doubt, always find extenuating circumstances. Thus, when the law prescribes as penalty either death, imprisonment for life, penal servitude or a term of imprisonment, it's usually the last of these penalties that they select. Nearly two thousand people in Germany disappear every year without trace—victims, for the most part, of maniacs or sadists. It's known that these latter are generally recidivists— but the lawyers take great care to inflict only very light penalties on them.