Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Of deepest concern to the Allies were German activities on the upper reaches of their Westwall. As far north as Wesel and Emmerich, where the Rhine turns west to enter the Netherlands, workers were observed completing casemates and tank traps opposite the neutral Dutch soil. Why? Near Aachen (Aix-la...
This gives the Soviet Union roughly three-fifths of what was Poland, and most remarkably the oil wells in the South long coveted by Germany. Germany gets almost the whole of Poland's great industrial areas and roughly half the population of what was Poland, but gives up the...
Job for Radek? "The population of [Polish] villages and towns . . . enthusiastically meets the Red Army. The mighty Red Army and the high cultural level of its rank and file evoke general admiration. The population tears down Polish flags and replaces them with Soviet flags. . . . Peasants offered the Red Army the...
Polish policemen, identified in Soviet minds with Capitalism, were hunted from house to house, new Soviet police were described as "Workers' Guards." The Moscow radio announced that battalions of peasants were tracking down former Polish landlords who were hiding in the marshes and forests, clapping them into jail, added...
"Reconstruction and Germanization." The announced slogan of Nazi Labor Service battalions and Storm Troops in Germany's slice of Poland last week were "Reconstruction and Germanization!" Nearly all important bridges had been destroyed, either by German bombers or retreating Polish troops, and the first big job of the Labor...