Word: festung
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...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...
...toward 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...
...Peoples. Unfortunately for the future peace of a continent, Europeans themselves are by no means agreed on the truth or falsity of Count Coudenhove-Kalergi's ideas. The Europeans have many answers to the "how," and no doubt the arguments in the concentration camps behind the walls of Festung Europa are as diverse as the populations that Hitler has enslaved. Fear of Russian intentions, fear of chaos, fear of the liquidation of the middle classes, fear of the possible postwar recrudescence of German might - these are merely a few of the fears that provoke Europeans to yeasty thinking...
Bloody Way. Russia, involuntary collaborator in the Empire's restoration, banged massively against the east wall of Festung Europa. In point of size this was still the No.1 front...
...idea of Festung Europa-a continent to be held everywhere, at any cost-was probably never much more than propaganda, and it began to fade months ago. There were reports that the Germans planned to leave most of Italy and Yugoslavia, all of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Crete and their Mediterranean islands outside their main line of continental defense. An inner fortress, to be held as a last barrier around the Reich, would include northern Italy and Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania, and a Russian front running through eastern Poland. But, said these reports, the Germans would surrender lower Italy and the other...