Wehrmacht
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Wehrmacht was the name of the armed forces of Germany during World War II.
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[edit] Wehrmacht in In the Presence of Mine Enemies
During the Second World War and the Third World War, the Wehrmacht was the force primarily responsible for invading and conquering Germany's enemies, including Britain, France, and the Soviet Union during the Second World War, and the United States during the Third.
The Wehrmacht maintained bases all over the Greater German Reich, including in London, New York City, Los Angeles, and Paris. They put down rebellion when it flared up, and ensured that the conquered nations paid their annual tribute.
At home, the Wehrmacht had been locked in a fierce rivalry with the SS for decades. In 2010, when Führer Heinz Buckliger began instituting reforms, it was the SS who resisted those reforms. The Wehrmacht, however, remained officially neutral, until the SS launched their putsch against Buckliger in 2011. When the putsch began to fail, the Wehrmacht launched a counter-putsch, siding with Buckliger, and saving the Reich.
After the Reichstag Elections of 2011, the Wehrmach's power increased at the expense of the SS's. As reforms swept through the Empire as a whole, the Wehrmacht watched carefully, but did nothing to check it. In the United States, however, the Wehrmacht maintained tight control, knowing full well that the US could regain its footing and become a formidable rival for the Reich.
[edit] Wehrmacht in Worldwar
The Wehrmacht was the most formidible of the human ground forces encountered by the Race during their invasion. However, Germany still lost at least five panzers for every Race landcruiser destroyed and relied on their far larger numbers and industrial base, despite heavy aerial bombings, to combat the Race with anything close to efficiency.
The Wehrmacht performed much better in the Race-German War of 1965 defeating a Race invasion of France across the Pyrennes and overrunning much of Poland. However, these successes were made irrelevent by the large scale nuclear bombardment of Germany and the destruction of its military-industrial infrastructure. The Wehrmacht was significantly reduced in size along with other branches of the German armed forces in the subsequent Treaty of Moscow.
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[edit] Wehrmacht in "The Last Article"
The Wehrmacht finally subdued India in 1947, seven years after Britain fell to Germany.
