Word: festung
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...Sicily, the Germans faced another Cap Bon, though with some hope of evacuating a remnant. In Sicily, the Axis had lost 125,000 men captured, uncounted thousands dead and wounded, uncounted hundreds of planes, tanks, trucks and guns. They had won a month's time to bolster Festung Europa; but they had surely hoped for more. The Allies had practiced amphibious invasion on a grand scale, had sealed their control of the Mediterranean. Now they stood a step from the European main...
...Allies could not accept the last of these points. The war had reached a stage where Italy could not withdraw, could not be neutral. If she were not on the German side, she had to take the Allied side. For Italy had become a vital breach in Festung Europa, an avenue to, and a rampart of, the inner citadel of Germany. The Anglo-American and the German military machines were squeezing her hard...
Outside the Party there was a quickening. As a great wave passes beneath a ship, the news surged under Festung Europa. To millions of plain people it seemed to foreshadow an end to killing and to hunger...
...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...