German Army

The German Army must be ready for combat within four years. 

The Francolor deal was the most fabulous bribe ever offered a government. Although the contract was between Farben and the French companies, the real "consideration" had been the promise of an increase in production for the German Army. That... 

We are already at war, only the guns are not yet being fired.. . . The German Army must be ready for war within jour years.. . . Seebohm laughed and said "Czechoslovakia attack No, there s nothing to it.". .. 1 went to Goering and said, "We will lose the war on this basis."... 

The 58 ft-lb criterion appears to have been borrowed initially from German army doctrine at the beginning of the present century... 

Pschorr, R. Ber. Dtsch. Chem. Ges. 1896, 29, 496. Robert Pschorr (1868—1930), born in Munich, Germany, studied under von Baeyer, Bamberger, Knorr, and Fischer. He became an assistant professor in 1899 at Berlin where he discovered the phenanthrene synthesis. During WWl, Pschorr served as a major in the German Army. 

Heuschrecke (Ger for Grasshopper). A series of weapon carriers (Waffentrager) such as for 105 mm Gun, developed by the Germans early in the WW II. They are described in vol 111 of the Illustrated Record of German Army Equipment 1939-1945, War Office, London (1947)... 

M. von Duttenhofer (1843-1903) nitrated brown charcoal (used for prepn of C/82) by Schultze s method to obtain colloided rifle powder RCP (Rottweiler Cellulose Pulver) which was adopted by the German Army in 1884, but its compn was kept secret until 1887 (See also Vol 5 of Encycl, p D1581, under Duttenhofer s Smokeless Propellant ) (Ref 44, p 244)... 

Britain contributed technical innovation, industrial and financial power, and military manpower to the Allied victory. Hydrophones, tanks and aircraft are obvious examples of new weapons, and hardly suggest industrial backwardness or military conservatism. However, innovation with traditional weapons was no less important. New scientific artillery techniques made a bigger contribution to the defeat of the German army in 1918 than the more publicised tank. Even new weapons depended upon tactical innovation to be effective. The army s success was possible only when the different arms - artillery, infantry, tanks (when available) and aircraft - had learned to operate together. The navy s success over the U-boat required the adoption of the convoy system as well as the development of hydrophones. 

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