Word: balkanize
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...Poland, in Austria and throughout the Balkan peninsula, more angry and embittered objectors to Hitler's New Order dug gun or saber from under the floor and went off to mountain passes or to city cellars to kill Germans. Last week...
...London, had publicly taken sides with Serb Nationalist Mihailovich. Oldtime Serb nationalists, who hold most of the posts in the Government in Exile, tend to attack the non-Serb elements in Yugoslavia, particularly the Partisans, whom they accuse of plundering the people of Yugoslavia. But poverty-stricken, oppressed Balkan peasants, traditionally pro-Russian, are attracted by slogans, long associated with Moscow, such as "Land to the Landless," "Higher Wages," and "People's Governments." Many Yugoslavs wish their Government would negotiate with the Partisans, through Moscow, to create a unified strategy and perhaps a unified command...
...Luftwaffe's Colonel General Alexander Löhr, Reich Minister of Economics Walther Funk and German Ambassador in Ankara Franz von Papen had flown to the Balkans to see what they could do. Reports came back that the Balkan nations had far too many troops concentrated on each other's frontiers. And they found other things not to their liking...
...possible solution for all Hitler's Balkan headaches might be German occupation of the entire area and a push toward the Middle East through Turkey. Colonel General Löhr, newly appointed Luftwaffe commander for the Balkans, was one of Hitler's best. He it was who led the famed Coventry raid in 1940. Commanding Germany's Fourth Air Fleet, he had maintained supremacy of the air over Stalingrad for a month. When winter froze the Russian front the Fourth Air Fleet might follow its commander to the Balkans, where it probably could cause a great deal...
...Mediterranean? Axis labor battalions raised defenses along the Balkan and Mediterranean coasts. The Germans, reporting big-scale British landing exercises at Gibraltar, had not forgotten that along the Balkan coasts were the points of action nearest to the Russians' southern front. Nor could they forget the coastline between Tunisia and Egypt, in Rommel's rear, where a sudden blow might affect the whole course of battle in North Africa and the Middle East...