landsturm
noun
a general draft of people in time of war.
landsturm
American
[lahnt-shtoor m]
/ ˈlɑntˌʃtʊərm /
noun
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a general draft of people in time of war.
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the force so drafted or subject to such draft, consisting of all who are capable of bearing arms and not in the army, navy, or Landwehr.
Landsturm
British
/ ˈlantʃtʊrm /
noun
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a reserve force; militia
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a general levy in wartime
Etymology
Origin of landsturm
1805–15; < German: literally, land storm
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It seemed frivolous, almost impertinent, and the landsturm officer, leaning in the open window beside me in the passageway, thinking perhaps of his own home across the Rhine, laughed and breathed a deep-chested "Kolossal!"
From Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them by Ruhl, Arthur
At Linz, the landsturm were mustered to fire a volley, as the victory of Leipzig was celebrated for two or three days in most parts of Germany.
From A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium by Bernard, Richard Boyle
She had seen the landsturm officer brought to the hospital strapped fast to the stretcher, because his sobbing wrenched and tore his body so that the bearers could not control him otherwise.
From Men in War by Latzko, Andreas
He was casting about for an evasive reply when an unintelligible wheezing exclamation drew all eyes to the corner in which the landsturm officer and his wife were sitting.
From Men in War by Latzko, Andreas
In the war he was a lieutenant of the landsturm, in civil life a well-known composer.
From Men in War by Latzko, Andreas
Captain Landau tells many a tale of success and failure: Old Fritz of the Landsturm was a sentry on the border.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gangs had names such as the Edelweiss Pirates, the Navajos, the Black Gang, the Lechler Landsturm.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Footnote 54: Record of the Appellations-gerichtsrath Tepler, who himself, as a boy, went to the field with the Landsturm against the French at Magdeburg.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
These German soldiers were far from being on the best of terms with our old Landsturm men, who continued to carry out the usual guard duties as they had done previously.
From 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison by Caunter, John Alan Lyde
Among the prisoners were smooth-faced youths and old men, some in the uniforms of soldiers, or of Landwehr, or Landsturm.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
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