Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies enter Europe? By Italy? and how soon? (See p. 26.) Or shall the Allied armies strike more directly instead through Norway, Denmark, France...
Foreign workers returning home to Denmark and Sweden brought such descriptions of the Reich's second city, blasted by 10,000 tons of bombs in seven night raids by the R.A.F., two daylight attacks by U.S. bombers. Dante's Inferno, said one, was incomparable with Hamburg. Entire city districts were wiped out: St. Pauli, known to sailors the world over for its roller coasters, shooting galleries, beer halls and other places of amusement; Altona, the "Red district" of pre-Hitler days, where Communists and Nazis had fought bitter, bloody battles on the streets; the harbor with its huge...
...Weltwoche, known for its authentic military information, said last week that the German idea of Fortress Europe was already dead. According to Weltwoche, even before Mussolini quit, the Germans had abandoned any hope of holding all the shores and lands of Axis Europe. Instead, they planned to turn Norway, Denmark and Belgium in the north, France in the west, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria and Crete in the south into rear-guard battlefields. As in Sicily, limited German forces would fight for those lands-not to hold them indefinitely, but to make invasion as slow and expensive as possible...
Over the freshly sodded grave of a British pilot who crashed in Denmark, a Danish pastor, whose name did not reach the outer world, placed a stone with this inscription: "Fell in the battle, also for Denmark...
...with clear brown eyes and a strong jaw, the 45-year-old prelate has one of the world's minor sees. There are only three hospitals, three parishes, two elementary schools, 400 Catholics. Of Iceland's 120,000 people, 94,000 are Lutherans. Like those in Denmark, they are High-Church, wear Mass vestments, etc. Some 20,000 Icelanders profess no faith at all. They live on isolated farms, so church-going is a good deal of a chore...