Word: capitulationism
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Another criticism is directed toward the "Temptation" scene. The effectiveness of the lines leading up to Othello's conviction that he has been betrayed by jealousy are slightly minimized by the technique of reading from maps. A non-chalance is introduced that turns Othello's capitulation to somewhat of a...
Terms. The full text of the armistice of Sicily embraced many thousand words. An official summary showed that the Italian capitulation was as sweeping as the German surrender of 1918. The Badoglio regime agreed to:
An hour and a half after the people of the United Nations began celebrating Italy's surrender, Radio Berlin was still soothing its listeners with a musical program called Let Us Go On Dreaming. After sufficient time had passed for hard-pressed Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels to concoct his...
Gaudiest feather in his cap was his command of the Stalingrad relief campaign. Rokossovsky's forces-tanks, infantry, artillery, aircraft and cavalry-crossed the Don to form a ring around Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus' 22 divisions, anticipated the point of a German counterattack, and in savage and...
The Makings of Victory. Allied troops held nearly 80,000 of Sicily's 99,000 sq. mi. They had the German defenders pocketed in a shrinkage triangle, some 60 miles wide at its base, 70 miles deep on each side. The German forces had lost so many of their...