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    THE MAKING OF A MYTH

    Oct 02, 2018 3 minutes
    BY MARK GRIMSLEY

    WITH THE 1949 CREATION OF NATO, it became necessary for the Western alliance to recreate a German army—one whose leadership inherently would be filled from top to bottom with World War II veterans. To avoid the political awkwardness of a large force composed at least partly of recently branded war criminals, NATO sought to forge an image of a professional and apolitical German officer corps, distinct from the Nazis’ Waffen-SS officers who received the full blame for Nazi

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