Word: europas
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...England last Sunday, lean young men from the U.S. took English girls punting on the placid reaches of the upper Thames. English children played at storming the walls of Festung Europa. Maimed men, for whom the war is already over, sunned themselves by convalescent homes. The drone of motors grew steadily stronger...
...coordinate" Germany's eager little ally. Full military occupation would be necessary, and a more tractable government; henceforth, too, more Hungarian workers for German industry, more Hungarian food for German mouths, would be required. Hungary, in short, was within the inner fortress (Festung Deutschland now, not Festung Europa); the time to play at being a sovereign ally had gone...
...tide now lapped at Festung Europa; it washed most heavily at Poland and Rumania. This week it was 50 mi. from Rumania's 1940 border, 275 mi. from frightened Bucharest, 200 mi. from Warsaw. Only 240 mi. away, Ploesti's oilfields-fueling pump of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe-tempted Russian bombers...
...Erich Koch, Nazi "Commissioner for the Ukraine," had held his court, and the great German firms which plundered Russia and Poland had maintained their headquarters. Równe's fall, like the Red entry into Estonia, had certainly raised a roaring echo in Festung Europa...
...Franco. NBC listeners to a new venture called The State Department Speaks heard high officials say that the oil goes to Spain as part of the bargaining to keep neutral countries from supplying the enemy with what the enemy wants. The Department denied that the oil seeps into Festung Europa...