Word: festung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army has a solid backlog of reserve equipment for the changing needs of the war. When production falls below goals two months in a row, as seems to have happened, the Army loses not only equipment but time-and if enough time is lost, an all-out assault on Festung Europa may be delayed too long...
Notes of pessimism from Festung Europa...
...seem possible that the Nazis, hard-pressed in their Festung Europa, would attempt an invasion of Britain at this time. But there were some people in London who did believe that bullheaded SS youth might be prepared to make quick, suicidal raids. Such raids could serve the purposes of: disrupting Allied concentrations on British coasts ; gathering intelligence reports; bolstering Axis morale...
...postwar problems the one most thickly sown with mines, strung with barbed wire and most heavily fortified is the future of continental Europe. Last week FORTUNE, in a special supplement, fourth of a series on The United States in a New World, made a frontal assault on this intellectual Festung. Compared with much postwar thinking in the press about Europe, the proposals of FORTUNE'S editors are direct and bold. Their goal: "to create a new Europe. We are no more 'realistic' than that." But readers who could remember back before Hitler, before the Depression, recognized that...
...Festung Europa was a continent behind a flexible system of interrelated land, air and sea defenses. Berlin, cocking an ear, could hear the enemy admitting that the system was formidable. Admiral Sir William James warned his country men in London: "We saw at Dieppe, which was a most carefully planned enter prise, how a few well-situated guns on shore can wreck an amphibious opera tion." Clearly, the Allied strategists who knew the score were not so foolish as to expect a quick or easy conquest of German Europe...