Word: arnim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been referring to the wrong page in his history of German literature when he wrote that "their [the Grimm brothers'] first publication, in 1805, was a collection of folksongs, Des Knaben Wunderhorn." This well-known collection of older German folksongs was published by the German romanticists Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano...
...TIME slipped on its dates. The Grimm brothers, proteges of Von Arnim and Brentano, collaborated on later volumes of the Wunderhorn...
...General Mark Wayne Clark's Fifth Army, built and trained behind the lines during the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns, undoubtedly poised. Possibly included in the Fifth: two infantry divisions, the 9th and the 34th; and the 1st Armored Division, which have not been heard from since they fought Arnim south of Bizerte. There was Lieut. General George Patton's great Seventh Army-three infantry divisions, an airborne division and an armored division thoroughly experienced in overwater invasion. There were also General Henri Honore Giraud's 200,000 Frenchmen, equipped with U.S. weapons, ready and eager to fight...
...hint was given of the total count of cannon, tanks and trucks. One guess at the loot taken from Arnim's armies: a thousand fieldpieces, two or three hundred tanks, six or seven hundred planes. No one would guess at the haul of small equipment: machine guns, mortars, and such oddments of fighting apparel as helmets and side arms...
Somewhere in England, hawk-faced Colonel General Jurgen von Arnim, captive commander of Axis North African armies, complained of a soldier's ailment (flat feet). He also showed signs of a beaten general's occupational ailments-mental depression and an anxiety neurosis. For the latter trouble, the British called in a psychiatrist...