Word: ck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clashes between SS domestic troops and armament workers have occurred in Germany during the past six weeks. Troops have tried to prevent workers from going to air-raid shelters on the approach of enemy planes. There have been several hundred casualities, notably in Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin and Osnabrück. But the importance of these clashes should not be overestimated. There will have to be many more shootings and casualties before disaffection spells the Government's collapse...
Since June 1, Allied raiders have visited Europe on an average of almost every other night. Most of these were 200-300 plane raids. The London Times claimed that the battering of such important railway towns as Kassel, Nürnberg, Osnabrück and Mainz, of such rail centers as Cologne, has forced the Germans to use barge canals and coastal waters. Last month, announcing that R.A.F. bombers were dropping 8,000-lb. blockbusters, the Air Ministry declared that photographs showed 270 acres of Karlsruhe and 370 acres of Düsseldorf laid waste. Other cities have been blasted...
...Channel under cover of dark and big guns. That a nest of these big guns festered at Cap Gris Nez, where the Channel is narrowest. That behind the vessels and guns thousands of troops were being moved up; and behind the troops supplies were based on Osnabrück, Mannheim, Aachen, Mann, Krefeld. That the invasion might come from any direction, not excepting Eire. That Hermann Göring was personally directing the Luftwaffe and that Commander in Chief of the Land Forces Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had moved up to "inspect" troops. That the tides were...
...roses, and refraining from indiscriminate bombing of Berlin despite urgent popular pull for it, the R. A. F. further pointed out that it had bombed scores of authentic military objectives, such as potential jumping-off spots for an invasion, railroad centres like Hamm, Ehrang (near Trier), Osnabrück, Brussels, air bases at Norderney and Den Helder, industrial plants like Bremen's Deutsche Schiffund Maschinenbau (shipbuilding), and three of Berlin's railroad terminals...