You saw your role as protecting Germany? Our training had impressed this on us. The idea was that the Western Allies were in the pay of the Bolsheviks in the East, who were orchestrating world events against us. I remember that phrase clearly from some of the officers: ‘They are orchestrating world events.’ To us, this meant that the Reds were closing in on Germany in the East, and their partners the Americans and the English were trying to crush us in a pincer from the West, by attacking through France. This is another phrase I recall: ‘We are in a clamp, and Germany is caught between the
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