Word: festung
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There were few air enthusiasts in the Allied camp who still believed that the air campaign would win the war. Yet even the non-enthusiasts could see that it was an indispensable part of the overall pressure on Festung Deutschland...
...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...
...demands: the time had come to "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...
...bombbay of a disarmed British Mosquito bomber that can carry only one passenger and flies only on moonless nights to lessen the chances of being shot down. His listening post is one of two we have set up in neutral European countries to get the truth out of Festung Euro pa and into the pages of TIME. The other is in Switzerland − and very soon I hope to be able to bring you word of still a third TIME office right under Hitler's nose...