Word: ditched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time for vitriolic German threats. Exhorted the Nazi Foreign Office spokesman: "Kill, murder and poison . . . cast overboard our last scruples." Perhaps the Nazi leadership, in the last ditch of desperation, would order gas or bacteriological warfare. But if the threat was another bluff, it was quickly called. SHAEF let the thing be said that had long been evident but unlabeled: that terror bombing of German cities was deliberate military policy. The German command could easily read between the lines an Allied warning...
...noise became more & more insistent, began to sound like the busy signal on a dial telephone. Brennke halted, straightened up, took off the headphones to see what was wrong with them-and instantly dived into the roadside ditch. The odd sound was the zing of German bullets going past Brennke's head...
...Army vehicles. Magnificent Autobahnen (express highways) enabled the Nazis to switch reserves quickly from one threatened spot to another. But the respite was only temporary. All along the Oder's east banks tremendous Russian forces were gathering like water behind a dam. German propagandists demanded a last-ditch stand, coined a slogan, "Victory or Siberia." Best bet: Siberia...
Clearly or dimly, most Germans realized that Himmler was the new master of the Third Reich. Last October, Himmler himself had told how Germany would" be defended: "Every village, every house, every farm, every ditch, every forest and every bush." As Adolf Hitler's longtime chief butcher, torturer, spy and slavemaster, Heinrich Himmler is the archetype of the top Nazi who cannot surrender. Now, while keeping Hitler as the Führer symbol, Himmler does the dictator's job of maintaining Germany at war. Around himself and his henchmen he has formed the last granite-hard core...
...measure of its speed, the Russian victory seemed easy. It had not been. East Prussians fought with Teutonic fury. There, if anywhere, the Germans had girded well for a last-ditch battle. Every settlement was a little fortress, every house a gun post. The Germans threw in everything: crack troops, Volksstürmer, trainees, inhabitants of towns, the largest number of buzz bombs yet rocketed against the Russians...