Word: festung
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...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...
...Germany's attempt to drain France of all available manpower. The Germans, taking over from Pierre Laval the job of recruiting an additional 40,000 French workmen, launched one of the biggest manhunts in history. They sought workmen to build up the fortifications of Hitler's "festung Europa," for work in German factories, for services of supply behind German lines in Russia...
Goebbels and his faction believe that a bitter defense of Festung Europa and the campaign to frighten the U.S. and Britain with Russian Communism can bring the Allies to terms. Germany, according to this reasoning, would emerge with substantial victory from this war, keep the opportunity for total victory in the next...