Re: List Discipline

["Heidelbauer Andreas" <andreas.heidelbauer@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

OK, but even if I am wrong, would you really think it was a defense army by
heart or only by the treaty of Versailles?

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Von: Roberto Haab <rhaab@tinet.ch>
An: ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk <ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Datum: Donnerstag, 4. Februar 1999 12:12
Betreff: R: List Discipline


>>2nd:The Reichswehr never was a  Defense Army as you try to make believe.
>>It was an Imperialist Army(e.g. look for the Hunnenrede by Wilhelm II).
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>I think you are making a confusion. The Reichswehr is not the army of
>Wilhelm II but the 100'000 men army granted by the Versailles Treaty to the
>Weimarer Republik (119-1933). This army was confined to have a lot of
>mounted cavalry  and to make monoevres with papier-mâché tanks.
>The high spirit and the splendid professionality of this Army allowed
Hitler
>to make out of it a big and modern army (Heeresvermehrungen 1935 and 1938),
>unequalled until the end under the point of view of tactical skill,
>discipline and stamina.
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