Word: drang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drang Nach Süden. Adolf Hitler knew that a winter campaign in the South would have several advantages. His people and Army were both becoming restive for new triumphs. Of 212 divisions in all, probably not over 60 were useful to garrison the conquered territories. All the rest-about 150-might as well be put to some use. There were three things Germany very much wanted to get at: the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, which could supply Germany's major shortage; Gibraltar, one of the keys to British sea power; and Dakar, a place of many...
Among the richest sections of the library for scholars are those of the Baroque period of German literature from the end of the 17th to the middle of the 18th centuries, and of the "Sturm und Drang" period of the latter half of the 18th century...