Word: brennero
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...back door to Central Europe, a jumping-off place to the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. Rocky Greek islands straggle across the Aegean to the shores of Turkey. The Peloponnesian Peninsula lies close to Italy; Crete, halfway to Africa. In this war Greece's fate was settled at Brennero on Oct. 4, when Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini planned their drive to the east. For Greece is the key to control of two of the three routes to the east : by land and sea through Turkey, by sea via the Mediterranean. Even the third route is controlled in part...
...18th of March 1940, when the snow had scarcely gone from the pass between the Wolfendorn and Sattelberg, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sat down in a railroad car at Brennero station to plan their spring campaign against Great Britain and France. Twenty-two days later war began in Western Europe with a flanking movement into Denmark and Norway. Eighty-five days later Italy entered the war with a flanking movement against collapsing France. Ninety-nine days later France fell...
Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano hurried down from Brennero to say good-by to his Spanish friend before he flew back to Madrid from Rome. When Don Ramon alighted at Madrid's airport the people of Spain had already been told that they were remaining nonbelligerent, had shown their relief by demonstrating in the streets. They were glad to welcome El Cunadissimo home under such circumstances. Don RamÓn reviewed picked contingents of the Falangist militia, then rushed home to see his sixth child, borne by Señora Suñer the night before...
March 18. Hitler and Mussolini confer at Brennero...
...capitalize on the possibility for such a convenient brand of European federation, Hitler invited Il Duce to Brennero fortnight ago. There are good grounds to believe that Herr Hitler proposed...