Word: bloodlessness
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Undoubtedly the grimness of the war was coming home to the German people. The Russian campaign had been neither swift nor bloodless. German families without a casualty in Poland, France, the Balkans, Africa or Crete heard that a son, a father, a husband, a sweetheart or a friend had been killed in the fighting against Russia. The R.A.F. was pounding harder, by day as well as night (see p. 17). And though midsummer had come as a late blessing to homes heatless by decree since May 1, warmth was the only mitigation of Germany's joyless and complicated living...
...with the greatest pleasure that I address you today from our newly-organized countries. As you know, only the U.S.A. is so obstinate as to remain unfriendly to us, but our bloodless victory will soon be complete there, also...
...BALKANS AND THE MIDDLE EAST 32. Twelfth nation to come under Hitler control and his last bloodless conquest in the Balkans was: 1. Hungary...
...Western Europe, Germany marched toward bloodless victories. With no fear of British reprisals, Unoccupied France turned over a sizable part of its shipping to help get the Germans to North Africa (see p. 23). Adolf Hitler sent a note to Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain demanding the reinstatement of Pierre Laval in the Cabinet. Against U.S. Ambassador Alexander Wilbourne Weddell's warning that the U.S. would do its utmost for Britain, Spain's newspapers started an Axis-inspired campaign against Portugal, hinted that Spain would soon join the Axis. Object: Gibraltar...
...stuff that myths are made of was being spun out in Greece last week. The Greeks spoke and acted like a race of giants 20 feet tall, hurlers of thunderbolts, crushers of men. Far from being daunted by the noisy threat which was giving Germany victory after bloodless victory in the Balkans, the Government declared: "Greece has shown in the most definite way that any idea of armistice would find her disdainfully hostile." The heart was still fiercely hot in Greece's Army; it launched a violent attack along the entire central section of the Albanian Front, and within...