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...third approach, one that may be the most dangerous of all, if Egypt falls and the Nazis control the inner Mediterranean. The man waiting on that approach is the Luftwaffe's General Alexander Löhr, commander of all German forces in the Balkans, Crete and the Aegean Islands. A solely airborne thrust from Crete to the British island of Cyprus and on to the Syrian mainland would be difficult and costly, and it may be beyond the resources of the strained Luftwaffe (see p. 38). But General Löhr will be in a better position if Rommel...
From the time of Peter the Athonite to Adolf the paper hanger, the great rocky promontory of Athos, jutting into the Aegean like a prong of Poseidon's three-forked scepter, has been a place of refuge -for men only. No woman has knowingly been allowed to desecrate by her presence the huge cluster of monasteries atop the Holy Mountain, where bearded, black-cowled priests withdraw from worldly pleasures in the spiritual home of the Greek Orthodox Church. Even female cats and dogs and beasts of the field are barred, "so that their mating may not furnish an outlandish...
Rommel's push might be the southern prong of an Axis drive for the Middle East, with the north prong aimed at the Caucasus and perhaps a central prong from Greece and the Aegean Islands through Turkey. If so, the capture of Tobruk would be just an opening puncture for Rommel, as the capture of Kerch had been an opening puncture for Field Marshal Dieter Wilhelm von Mannstein. Or it might be merely an attack to test the British strength and prevent the diversion of British units to Syria...
...Aegean islands 300,000 people forestall starvation by eating herbs, while Nazi objections to Red Cross shipments of Canadian wheat in Swedish ships are resolved. Thousands of islanders, their skin hanging in folds about their hunger-dulled eyes, have fled to Turkey in small boats. "Trying to halt them," said the mayor of Chios, "is like trying to drive clouds against a strong wind...
Greece. Southward-flowing rivers would carry Hitler into Macedonia and Thrace, where he could witness the Bulgarian invasion of Greece: several hundred thousand peasants have been turned out of their homes to make room for Bulgarian settlers. Beyond Greece would be the blue waters of the Aegean Sea, the purple minarets of Turkey and the terraced olive groves of Syria to lure him on. But some tiresome Nazi underling no doubt would urge the Führer to inspect fleets of dull grey invasion barges, squadrons of bombers, fighters and troop carriers hidden away in the islands off Greece...