Wehrmacht

"The only way the Army would support Der Führer's regime was if your stormtroopers were eliminated."

- Johann Schmidt to Ernst Kaufmann

The Wehrmacht was the unified armed forces of Germany from the Nazi Party's rise to power until the end of World War II.

History
"I hate these guys."

- Dum Dum Dugan

In 1934, to gain support from the German Army for his regime, Adolf Hitler ordered the assassinations of all higher officers of the Sturmabteilung. That purge later became known as the. The Wehrmacht patrols were guarding the German-Swiss border when Dr. Abraham Erskine attempted to escape to Switzerland with his family in 1935.

When World War II broke out in 1939, the Wehrmacht served as the spearhead of the German conquest of Western Europe. When Paris fell into the German hands, the German soldiers triumphantly goose-stepped through the city.

In October 1943, a battle was fought between the Wehrmacht troops and the 107th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army near Azzano in Italy. A battalion of HYDRA soldiers suddenly intervened, wiping out the Germans and capturing dozens of American soldiers.

Numerous portraits of the high-ranking Wehrmacht officers could be found in Castle Zemo in 1944. A battalion of HYDRA soldiers that guarded the castle wore the modified Wehrmacht uniforms with the HYDRA insignia.

In 1945, at the HYDRA Research Facility Number 4, a parked had the Wehrmacht Heer license plate. Many boxes in the facility were marked with the logo of the.

In May 1945,, the chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, had to sign the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at Soviet headquarters in Berlin.

Trivia

 * Some of the concept artworks for Captain America: The First Avenger show the Valkyrie and the HYDRA Parasits with the Wehrmacht insignia.