Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since defeat had become inevitable, the German plan of resistance had been based heavily on space-territory outside the Fatherland to be yielded slowly, skillfully, expensively to the enemy. Now the space was disappearing like dry grass in a prairie fire. The end could...
...Germany the days were darker now than the well-remembered black days of July, 1918. The Nazi leaders, in a hysteria of fury and fear, had been compelled to fight on a new front, within the fatherland. In & out of Germany the rumors flew: two divisions had mutinied in East Prussia; naval forces were in a state of mutiny; old Junker generals were being purged; 5,500 Army officers, including 34 generals, were arrested or executed...
...Gates. Germany's visible reaction to this situation was one of unconcealed gloom and alarm. Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar, ace German military commentator, admitted in a somber radio analysis for his people that the enemy was "at the gates" of the Fatherland, that Germany was facing vast attacks on three fronts by Allied forces superior in men and materials. Other spokesmen seemed almost to vie with each other in gloom...
Thomas Mann, German author in exile (see BOOKS), who has two sons in the U.S. Army, became a U.S. citizen (as did his wife), predicted the fall of his fatherland within a year: "I do not believe the German people and the German Army can stand another winter...
Free Poles? Father Orlemanski went to a Moscow radio studio. In Polish, he addressed the Poles in Poland: "Dear people of my fatherland. . . . We are Slavs, and allied Poland and Russia will be the largest force in the east. This union will bring great good both to Poland and Russia and will secure peace for ourselves for hundreds of years. . . . Long live a strong, free, independent, democratic Poland...