Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships." The British admitted some months ago that for every ship which was sunk, at least one got through. And since Malta has been pounded daily by Axis bombers, the proportion is probably larger. The sinking of four ships suggested that the Axis is determined to keep Field Marshal Erwin Rommel up to attack strength, even though North Africa is already beginning to swelter in its unbearable summer heat...
...Libyan desert was loud with the clatter of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Panzers moving eastward...
Nathan the Wise (adapted from the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by Ferdinand Bruckner; produced by Erwin Piscator). This famous plea for tolerance, which a wise Christian wrote 163 years ago about a wise Jew, is still eloquent propaganda if pretty hopeless theater. It is easy to see why it was one of the first works burned by the Nazis when they came to power. Laid in Jerusalem at the time of the Third Crusade, it offers a setting in which Christian, Jew and Mohammedan can hardly help being at one another's throats. But by restricting them...
...line Russia had some of her best military brains at work. So had Germany. Adolf Hitler had pigeon-holed his intuition and called back his Marshals. Walther von Brauchitsch was in conference with him and ready to go back into service. So were Bock, Rundstedt and desert-fighter Erwin Rommel, called home from Africa to confer on the synchronization of Germany's Russian and Near Eastern drives. While the new battles were planned, the old battle went on. And all along the front, in windrows, lay the sightless dead...
Imperial troops west of Tobruk were almost certain that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel would resume the offensive. R.A.F. reconnaissance planes reported German tanks and infantry moving up the coast to the front at Ain-et-Tmimi. Patrols met the stiffest resistance in weeks...