Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German counter to the invasion did not come at once. Last week the Nazis confined their outward Middle Eastern activity to bombing Alexandria twice, killing 500, making 50,000 flee the city on trucks, bicycles, goat carts. The Axis even went so far as to announce that the Syrian campaign was entirely a fight between the former Allies. It was that, but plenty more besides...
...times the claims and counter-claims bordered on the ridiculous. The British announced that the ex-world's champion heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling, who though a little overage and a lot overweight had volunteered as a parachutist, had been killed; the Germans replied that he was ill of a "tropical disease" in an Air Force hospital and quoted him ironically: "Many of the Tommies showed true soldierly spirit even toward their German prisoners. A British Army sergeant captured by us promptly assisted us in treating our wounded." As a sort of reprisal the Germans announced that Major General Bernard...
Pointing out the effect of Nazi propaganda on the United States in "The Poison in Our System" lead article of the current issue of the "Atlantic," Carl Joachim Friedrich, professor of Government, advocates a counter attack by the Americas to undermine the morale of Hitler's followers...
...long did the British allow themselves the luxury of pleasant surprise. They chased the counter-raiders with an energetic counter-counter-raid, right through Hellfire Pass, out of Salûm, all the way to Fort Capuzzo, across the border in Libya. They took 500 German prisoners, but they knew they could not follow through. Sir Archibald was not quite ready. They in turn turned around. The Germans counter-counter-counter-attacked and retook Salûm and the pass which had earned its nickname...
...went, last week, back & forth, push & counter-push. These giant raids brought out important facts of strategy. In their hasty withdrawal the British had shown the Germans exactly what the Germans wanted the raid to reveal: the British plan of leading the attacker on to Matrûh. On the other hand, the Germans had shown the British that the Nazi attack-broad-fronted, wary of bombardment from the sea, in fanned columns which could flow around hard cores of resistance-would be harder to stop when it came than the Italians' Indian-file dress parade had been...