Word: gadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germans fear an Allied blow at Norway. A German military writer, retired Rear Admiral Richard Gadow-the first German to disclose, in 1935, that the Nazis were building submarines-wrote recently in Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung: "A successful Allied invasion of Norway would be a catastrophe for Germany. Norway in the hands of the enemy would mean great economy in the protection of Anglo-Saxon convoys . . . and would constitute a dangerous threat to the Finnish northern flank"-to say nothing, eventually, of the German northern flank...