Reichswehr
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Reichswehr
< German, equivalent to Reich realm, empire ( see Reich) + -s genitive ending + Wehr defense, weapon
Example Sentences
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Back from the Normandy beachhead poured 15,000 prisoners wearing the Reichswehr green.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hitler found it in the German Workers' Party, a tiny group which the Bavarian Reichswehr officers had sent him to observe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Relieved of the sniffs and sneers of elderly Junker leadership, the younger officers of the then small Reichswehr were wholly free to develop new ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
It looked dangerously like the Reichswehr, which Hitler had built into the Wehrmacht.
From Time Magazine Archive
Volkheimer goes inside and returns with a colonel in field uniform: the Reichswehr coat and high belt and tall black boots.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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