Word: belgians
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...peopled the fields in attitudes of grotesque helplessness. The wounded lay amid the still burning wreckage of smashed German motor columns; they were so many that there was no way to evacuate them. On the roads the prisoners marched eight abreast in a column a mile long and a Belgian woman danced up & down with her finger across her throat screeching "Kaput Hitler...
...eyed, bony Belgian children had learned enough English last week to chant such rhymes to Tommies and G.I.s, who tossed them chewing gum, hard candy, field rations. But what the youngsters needed was milk and oranges. Some 50% of them had rickets...
...Belgian children were not the worst off in Western Europe's unfolding malnutrition chart. The farther the Allied troops advanced, the hungrier they found the population. Imported food was a necessity. Food was also politics, for the lack of food could lead to unrest and delay Europe's rehabilitation...
...Animals. In Antwerp, joyous burghers rounded up remaining Germans and collaborationists, stuck them in empty cages at the zoo-officers in the lion house, Belgian Fascists in the tiger pens, wailing women in the wildcat cages. The day before, a troop of flustered "Mice"-grey-clad German women auxiliaries-had piled their belongings on a truck, which then drove off. The truck was driven by members of Belgium's underground "White Brigade," would never reach the Reich...
...overrun, and many more were isolated as the British crossed into Belgium. Robot attacks on the 'London area fell off sharply. The Germans seemed to have abandoned the heart of the launching area around Calais, for the few missiles that came over early last week were from the Belgian coast beyond Dunkirk...