Word: baltic
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From East Prussia strong German forces drove north into Lithuania. The Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) afforded a particularly tempting target. Russia seized them in June 1940-as the Germans did after the Red revolt in 1917. The people remain disaffected, and Adolf Hitler made the most of their feelings...
Revolt against the Russians was reported breaking out in Estonia; the Germans set up a puppet Government for Lithuania. If the Germans could quickly sew up the Baltic littoral, they would not only have developed the northern arm of the master pincers; they would also have deprived Russia of bases for her large fleet of submarines, which might prove embarrassing to the German flow of ore from Sweden...
...must have thought of the Knights of the Sword and the Teutonic Knights, who Germanized the shores of the Baltic, where the Hohenzollerns were to found their Kingdom, and of Friedrich Wilhelm, the Elector of Brandenburg, who helped bring about the Treaty of Westphalia after the Thirty Years' War that reduced Germany to ruin. It was Friedrich Wilhelm who started the Hohenzollerns on the road to the leadership of Germany, and his son, Friedrich I, who persuaded the Holy Roman Emperor to style him King in Prussia. Of Friedrich's grandson, Frederick the Great, the Kaiser must have...
...Yugoslavs reacted to this nonsense by marching to battle with song. The Greeks, who have tasted the fruits of valor, answered not only with gunfire but with taunts and with determination. They shouted a new version of the classic boast: "We shall throw them into the sea-into the Baltic Sea." They talked a little prematurely of the day the war would end-when Evzones would march through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin...
...Archbishop of Breslau and dean of the German hierarchy, formally protested to Hitler because the Nazis ruled that services could not be held anywhere in Germany before 10 a.m. after nights with British air raids-a rule which keeps many German Catholics from attending mass. > Baptists in the 'Baltic area of the U. S. S. R. (until last year Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) were bravely enduring new active persecution by the Soviet Government...