Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then they played their defense trump: the Allies had been broadcasting appeals to civilians to help German soldiers desert; Hogen and Packbier were only following General Eisenhower's instructions; the three soldiers were trying to desert from the Wehrmacht...
Emphasizing "geographic landscape," Raisz says that "it is more important to know that a region is tropical forest and not desert than that it is 1000 or 2000 feet above sea level--thus, in this atlas, field is distinguished from forest, savanna from desort, tundra from boreal forest. The characteristics of mountains are indicated, cultivated land is shown and omitted are the couniless names of small places. Not to exclude the absence of gay colors showing where countries are--for who can know where the boundary line of the future will...
Hitler, who sometimes knew a good soldier when he saw one, gave Rommel a free hand with the "Plan Sud"-the Rommel scheme for securing an African-Middle Eastern German empire. On the Baltic shores Rommel simulated desert conditions, trained the Afrika Korps with superheated barracks and artificial sandstorms. By March 1941 he went to Libya, to pull the faltering Italians out of defeat...
Against the overwhelming power of the Allied landing in Normandy, Rommel and the German Army were swamped. Historians must still decide whether Rommel was hog-tied by his superior. Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, whether Allied sea and air superiority covered any possible German move, or whether the Desert Fox, for once, was hesitant and bumbling...
...Dewey radio would not work that night, as the Dewey party rolled through the flat Arizona desert, eastbound from California after a full week of campaigning on the coast (see below). But the reporters' radio, in the lounge car, worked perfectly, almost as perfectly as the Champ had used it. And soon word of the speech filtered through to the Dewey...