Wehrmacht - 2025 ACF Nationals

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According to the historian Norman J. W. Goda, members of this group began being bribed using the Konto 5 slush fund after one of its members was ostensibly expelled for marrying a prostitute. The historian Hannes Heer (“HAHN-nuss HARE”) was accused of falsifying information regarding this group during a 1990s traveling exhibition (10[1])which (10[1])was bombed by extremists (10[1])in Saarbrücken (“zahr-BROOK-un”). Former senior members of this group met secretly at Himmerod Abbey to approve a memorandum that (10[1])promulgated the myth of this group’s “clean hands.” (10[12])In (10[1])1986, (10[1])the magazine Profil scandalously revealed that a former Secretary General of the (10[1])UN (10[1]-5[1])had served as an intelligence officer attached to this military in Yugoslavia. For 10 points, Kurt Waldheim served in what military force, which carried out Operation Barbarossa? (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: Wehrmacht (“VARE-mockt”) [or the German military; accept specific branches like the German Army, Germany Navy, German Air Force, Luftwaffe, or Kriegsmarine; prompt on Nazi Party or NSDAP; reject “SS” or “Schutzstaffel”] (The second clue refers to Werner von Blomberg.)

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Alexander Nichols	UCF	Maryland	49	10
Cooper Roh	Columbia A	Indiana	50	10
Bryce Cruise	Texas	Harvard	54	10
June Yin	WUSTL B	UC Berkeley B	72	10
Biniam Alaro	Florida	British Columbia	80	10
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Chicago B	80	10
Truman Hill	Vanderbilt	Columbia B	80	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Cornell B	80	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota	Johns Hopkins	80	10
Nathaniel Hull	UC Berkeley A	North Carolina A	80	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan	Ohio State	80	10
Graham Troy	North Carolina B	RIT	80	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Rutgers	80	10
Michał Gerasimiuk	Stanford	Chicago A	80	10
Gareth Thorlakson	Toronto A	Illinois A	80	10
Michael Du	Waterloo A	Northwestern	80	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State	NYU	81	10
Adrian Wong	Ottawa	Georgia State	82	10
Cormac Beirne	LSE	Waterloo B	94	10
Henry Bon	Winona State	Illinois B	95	10
Ani Perumalla	Penn State	Yale	95	-5
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech	Cornell A	122	10
Yrwin Batan	MIT	Toronto B	123	0
Joey Sun	Toronto B	MIT	123	0
Ben Wismath	Toronto C	Georgia Tech	123	10
Alan Xie	Yale	Penn State	123	10

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Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	24	96%	0%	4%	82.83