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Reichswehr

[ rahyks-vair; German rahykhs-veyr ]

noun

  1. the 100,000-man army Germany was permitted to maintain under the Versailles Treaty after World War I: the limit was secretly exceeded.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Reichswehr1

< German, equivalent to Reich realm, empire ( Reich ) + -s genitive ending + Wehr defense, weapon
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Example Sentences

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Volkheimer goes inside and returns with a colonel in field uniform: the Reichswehr coat and high belt and tall black boots.

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I mean the sons of the estancieros and the se�oritos who became officers under Segura while he had his Reichswehr experts running the army.

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And the college's chief is no monocled martinet such as the late great General Hans von Seeckt, who built the Reichswehr after Versailles, but an infantryman who rose to major general's rank fighting on the Eastern Front.

It looked dangerously like the Reichswehr, which Hitler had built into the Wehrmacht.

When Germany collapsed, Rundstedt was included in the brilliant little band of officers whom brilliant General Hans von Seeckt had chosen to rebuild the Reichswehr.

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