Word: dismemberment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"It was not ambition which led Napoleon to mutilate, dismember, absorb, fetter, and violate so many states: it was fear, the anxiety to reduce the losers to absolute impotence; but the result was always the opposite: the more Napoleon maltreated his victims, the more he feared them."
Like the Nazis, the Turks bred hatred and fear far & wide. As the Empire sank into political corruption, economic desuetude and cultural desolation, its enemies leaped upon it. After the 16th Century the Turks were under repeated attacks; parts of the Empire were chopped off after nearly every war, until...
Professor Bruns got pretty angry. Frenchmen might lie, but photographs could not. This picture was incontrovertible proof that Sumner Welles and Paul Reynaud had discussed a post-war settlement. See, said the professor, how the Allies planned to dismember Germany and friends: Poland restored and enlarged at the expense of...