| The battle proved the fallibility of Hitler and the vincibility of the Wehrmacht, which up to then had enjoyed little but victory. |
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| As the Wehrmacht had to change from attack to defence, the division was deployed to fight against partisans. |
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| The Soviet Union then fielded a huge army that had bested the Wehrmacht and was fully capable of gobbling up large chunks of Western Europe. |
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| When the Wehrmacht began looking for a replacement for its difficult-to-manufacture P.08 Parabellum in the early 1930's, Walther was one of the companies that responded. |
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| The Wehrmacht, not anticipating a winter campaign, then ran out of steam and was overwhelmed by Soviet armies newly raised, unbeknown to the Germans. |
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| Changed into a bar cross, it was also used on tanks and aircraft of the Wehrmacht. |
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| The founding fathers of the Bundeswehr served in the German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. |
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| At dawn the following day, the Wehrmacht, using an act of aggression as an excuse, attacked Poland. |
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| Soldiers of the Wehrmacht murdered on December 13, 1943 in the Greek Kalavryta 696 humans. |
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| The same could not be said for the 100,000 Wehrmacht troops killed, wounded, or captured. |
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| The offensive of the Wehrmacht, forced to attack, would be contained and then pushed back. |
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| Okulicki and Pelczynski thought the plan for Warsaw's underground fighters to wait until the Wehrmacht evacuated the city, and then harass its rearguard, was too passive. |
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| Part of civil defense forces on the border, I fell back with the Polish army towards Warsaw to fight the Wehrmacht. |
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| The Wehrmacht had already lost the war against the Soviet Union by December 7, 1941, and the German high command knew it. |
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| The Wehrmacht entered Austria the next day, to be greeted with enthusiasm by the populace. |
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| The unified armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945 were called the Wehrmacht. |
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| The defeats at the Battle of Stalingrad and Battle of Kursk ensured the gradual decline of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. |
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| Surviving Soviet units were pushed hundreds kilometres to the east and the Wehrmacht advance went almost uncontested. |
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| During the next three weeks, far from the easy advance the Wehrmacht expected, they encountered strong resistance from a rejuvenated French Army. |
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| Between June 22 and July 26, 1941, Romanian troops with the help of Wehrmacht recovered Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. |
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| In addition to the strategic bombing of the Ruhr, in April 1945, the Allies trapped several hundred thousand Wehrmacht troops in the Ruhr Pocket. |
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| At the end of World War II the US Army occupied Obersalzberg, to prevent Hitler from retreating with the Wehrmacht into the mountains. |
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| Even women in Britain were not safe from the murderous impulses of members of the Wehrmacht. |
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| Of the 58 major fortifications on the Maginot Line, just 10 were captured by the Wehrmacht in battle. |
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| Mr Cywinski was wounded during the 63-day struggle in 1944 between the poorly armed Polish Home Army and the German Wehrmacht. |
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| Steyr produced weapons for the Wehrmacht, including the Karabiner 98k Mauser. |
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| Instead of the Wehrmacht attacking the French, the Luftwaffe with naval assistance was to block imports to Britain and attack seaports. |
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| The Wehrmacht occupied Kalinin for two months from October 17 to December 16, 1941, leaving the city in ashes. |
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| Kalinin was the first major city in Europe to be liberated from the Wehrmacht. |
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| The proposal was all too reminiscent of the state-controlled brothels administered through the concentration camp system by the Wehrmacht in Nazi-occupied Europe. |
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| Operators mixed up the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe officers, provided stool pigeons and even set up an undercover interpreter. |
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| Between 1939 and 1945 Switzerland interned 13,000 Polish soldiers. They were members of the French army and crossed the border to escape the German Wehrmacht. |
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| The selection board performed this task until 30 September 1957 and reviewed some 600 applications of former Wehrmacht officers for leadership positions in the Bundeswehr during this time. |
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| After the Great War, neither Great Britain nor the United States of America devoted as much attention to the problems of tank development as did the German Wehrmacht, with a resulting lag in progressive designs. |
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| By 5 July 1941 the whole of Latvia had been overrun by the Wehrmacht. |
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| On 27 May 1944 the applicant and his men, who were armed and wearing Wehrmacht uniforms to avoid arousing suspicion, entered the village where the inhabitants were preparing to celebrate Pentecost. |
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| In 1939, acting in close collaboration with the Wehrmacht, Soviet troops took over the eastern part of Poland reaching as far as the outskirts of Ostro? |
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| During the interwar period, the German Wehrmacht devoted more attention to tank development which led to significant improvements in tank design and use in battle. |
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| In the second section of the book, Shepherd places case studies of four different Wehrmacht divisions within the larger political and social contexts of the region. |
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| Rather than storming the city, the Wehrmacht was ordered to blockade Leningrad so as to starve the city to death, while attacking it with bombers and artillery. |
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| The war ministerial post was de facto overtaken by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, which was headed by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel until the German surrender. |
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| Since the Wehrmacht was occupied in the attack on Poland, the French soldiers enjoyed a decisive numerical advantage along their border with Germany. |
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