Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young reservists performing the attack work, so Germany's Wall is manned by 20 divisions (some 250,000 men) of the regular Land-wehr, mostly veterans of 35-45, specially trained for defense. For sallies and counterattack which the Germans executed with moderate success last week, less valuable field troops are used, and Allied observers reported streams of reinforcements flowing toward Trier at week's end. They looked like about six divisions, which would be no great diversion from the 70 (out of Germany's total of over 100 divisions) known to be on the Polish Front...
...base (see p. 20). It had a cautious advance as French troops fought on German soil for the first time in 70 years (see p. 16). It had its casualties, refugees, wrecks, ruins. It had its propaganda ministries (see p. 25) and it had its first peace offer when Field Marshal Goring spoke to German munition workers...
Russia. Biggest neutral, Russia, already indicating her preference by the German-Russian pact, headlined the news of German victories. Field Marshal Goring boasted vaguely of Russia's raw materials. As German troops reached Warsaw, the streets of Moscow suddenly became full of uniforms. Scores of high naval officers were summoned to the Defense Commissariat. Conscription decrees called nearly 1,000,000 men into service. Russia had 3,000,000 under arms...
...soldier of the German Reich; just as I fought in the last war, so I will fight now. I shall not take off this uniform until we have achieved victory. . . . However, if something should happen to me; I want the German people to know that I have appointed Field Marshal Göring to become my successor. If something should happen to Field Marshal Göring, my deputy Rudolf Hess, will take his place; and if something should happen to Hess, a senate which I will soon appoint, will elect his successor, the man most worthy to succeed...