German investigations of any suspicion, now serves on a NATO top command post in Washington. The United States Government returned this note without affirming its trust in this slandered ally. It remained for Oberstdivisionaer Max Weibel, Heusinger’s former opposite number in the Swiss General Staff, to set the record straight and absolve Heusinger completely of the Russian charges of having planned aggressive warfare against neutral Switzerland during the war. The American public did not even learn of this authoritative acquittal of a charge to which American newspapers devoted their front pages. Suspicions lingered; the new German army recalled the old Wehrmacht in the eyes of readers who were not familiar with the fact that this new army was part of the NATO structure, commanded by non-Ger-man Western officers, under democratic controls and unable to fight on its own—even if it wanted to, which it does not.
Moscow’s Purpose
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