Word: brenner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the week was out bombers flew all the way to Bolzano and cut the Brenner route there. Through that pass in the top of Italy crawled 85% of the coal, 95% of the oil from Germany to Italy. By week's end, daily raids had disrupted and tangled the whole network of communications in the 700-mile-long peninsula, hampering the movements of reinforcements, blocking the withdrawls of troops...
...important discussions." From the German point of view these discussions had only two objects: maximum, to hold the Badoglio Government to its Axis alliance for war and/or peace; minimum, to keep Italy in the war long enough for Germany to get forces and matériel down through the Brenner to hold a de fensive line south of the Po. But German broadcasts stopped using the word "Axis...
...cities and vulnerable north-south rail lines are certain to get a shuttle-service plastering from North African air bases. If the Anglo-American drive hops across to Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, Italy will be wide open to land invasion. Reports that the Germans were fortifying the Brenner Pass suggests that German strategists may not bank too heavily on Italy's ability to defend her own shores...
...smiled unctiously at Adolf Hitler at Brennero he must have remembered the day, almost seven years ago, when he rushed an Army into the Brenner Pass and frightened Young Dictator Hitler out of grabbing Austria. In those seven years the ridiculous little man whom Mussolini belittled had become the conqueror of Europe. Yet even victorious Dictator Hitler was a prisoner of his conquests: he must conquer new worlds to be safe in the world he has conquered. And his prisoner, Aging Dictator Mussolini, must help him to conquer them...
Benito ("Peace is a Catastrophe") Mussolini proceeded to explain to his Blackshirts that Italy had been at war since 1922-"from the day when we lifted the flag of our revolution . . . against the Masonic, democratic, capitalistic world." On the other side of the Brenner, in Munich's Hofbräuhaus, Adolf went him two years better, told his Brownshirts that they had been fighting the Jews and the bankers for exactly 21 years, since the Party held its first meeting. Neither bothered to mention the fact that during most of these two decades Hitler thought Mussolini was a windbag...