Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remedial idea spread fast. In Gardelegen, where 1,100 political captives were incinerated in a straw-filled death chamber, civilians were marched in by U.S. troops and made to bury the blackened bodies. At Belsen where British forces' found cadavers piled like cordwood in a ditch, SS men were compelled at rifle point to bury bodies...
...Last Ditches. But in other towns there had been last-ditch fighting. After the first few days, the Germans seemed to have lost heart and direction; Field Marshal Walther Model was said to have flown out. The Americans had a large-scale victory of annihilation: 176,000 prisoners had been taken; only about 30,000 German troops remained in the severed pocket...
...defeat were insoluble. A decree by Hitler last week divorced Nazi Party duties from local government affairs. The German radio said that it was done to free busy Nazi officials from the burden of local administration. More probably, it was to free them for flight to their last-ditch Bavarian bastion...
...freer world trade. Said he, in an echo of the palmy days of isolationism: "This [tariff reduction] would be tantamount to signing a death warrant for hundreds of businesses and throwing tens of thousands of workers out of employment. Republicans in the House will fight it to the last ditch...
...result, flour mills were preparing to ration flour to bakers. Several Western railroads resorted to the last-ditch measure of shipping wheat in coal cars...