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This was, first of all, expert psychological warfare. Wrote New York Post Columnist Samuel Grafton: "The slogans offered are German slogans, not American, British or Russian slogans; Germans are invited to fight, not for our sakes, but for their own. . . . This is political blitz." Secondly, it may be a political maneuver, Russia's latest attempt to get the real second front it wants in Europe. The Russians may hope that the German Committee and its manifesto, combined with the Red Army's summer advance, will convince U.S. and British leaders that they had better get to Berlin fast...
...early light of July 23 the U.S. flag rose over Palermo and its 400,000 pliant civilians (see p. 28). "The greatest blitz in history," exuberant General George S. Patton Jr., Commander of the Seventh Army, called the march on the city...
Made for Utility. Between August 1940 and November 1942 the Nazi blitz demolished 250,000 British homes, damaged two and a half million more. The national need for cheap, durable furniture was great...
...touring British journalist looked at the U.S., noted the contrast between the America of 1943 and the England of the Blitz. To the London News Chronicle, Correspondent Philip Jordan cabled after a thoughtful five-week trip...
Germany also had trained men. Lord Londonderry, who was Britain's Air Minister in the years when the Luftwaffe was being built, says that the Nazi pilots never lost confidence during the blitz: "When for the first time they witnessed their comrades spinning to the earth or sea in flames, their morale, which more nearly approached fanaticism than anything never faltered, and they flew blindly on even when the Luftwaffe was losing 70 to 100 and 150 aircraft a day. Even when beaten, the German pilots still thought invasion merely postponed...