Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Timed to the minute came a story from Berlin: Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini would propose peace. German divisions released from the Polish front, together with the bulk of the German air force, would be sent to the German-Italian frontier-prepared to move across Italy with Italian troops if France refused peace; prepared to move against Italy if Italy refused to offer...
National Defense. In Rumania, where Russian troops had reached the northeastern frontier; in Hungary, where a Nazi invasion or a Nazi coup d'etat had been expected for so long that stories of a two-week delay seemed hopeful; in Bulgaria, where dreams of getting a slice of Rumania flourished under the belief that Russia had embarked on an aggressive policy; in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, the countries most directly threatened by German-Russian collaboration, the meaning of Germany's drive through Poland was clear. No historical precedent justified a fear that such ill-assorted partners as Germany...
...area south of Lithuania. Hurriedly Russia called up 4,000,000 troops. Hurriedly Russia called an armistice in the Russo-Japanese War (see p. 24). Then suddenly, as the Germans struck southward toward Polish oil fields, cutting off Polish retreat to Rumania, getting within 80 miles of the Russian frontier, Russian troops crossed the Polish border on a 500-mi. front...
Soviet Russia. Foreign envoys crossed the Dniester into Rumania; the Polish Government, which had holed up in Zaleszczyki on the frontier, hesitated, then fled into Rumania. Cut off from retreat on all sides, the Polish Army was disintegrating into guerrilla bands. While the Poles defended their capital, their country was overrun...
With the western frontier fortified, Brauchitsch could plan his attack, and the form it took was as old as warfare itself. Only the materials and the name were new. Blitzkrieg, in its simplest terms, is merely a war of movement, as opposed to a war of position, carried out with the fastest units available. Before World War I it was cavalry that flanked enemy positions, cut off communications, destroyed supplies. In both the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 the Germans won their decisive battles within six weeks after hostilities began...