Wehrmacht

"Yikes! It's the Wehrmacht! They're back from the history books... using Lola's secret weapon... the time machine! I can feel it's World War II all over again!"

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Return of Nazism

The Wehrmacht (German pronunciation: [ˈveːɐ̯maxt]), lit. "defence force") is the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1946, and the unified armed forces of the Nazi Union during World War II . It consisted of the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine (navy) and the Luftwaffe (air force). The designation Wehrmacht replaced the previously used term Reichswehr, and was the manifestation of Nazi Germany's efforts to rearm the nation to a greater extent than the Treaty of Versailles permitted.