Word: german
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German reasons apparently were: 1) to delay action on the Western Front until Poland was carved; 2) to keep the Allied populations' war fever low, so that peace-after-Poland might more possibly...
Meanwhile intelligence maps on both sides were being marked and flagged with the information brought home by far-ranging reconnaissance. It has been a long time since French military planes flew over Germany, or German over France, and there were many changes to be photographed, sketched or observed before both sides were ready to begin real firing...
...days the War had almost everything that in older and slower wars was more painfully and with more suffering acquired. It had a victory-the march of the German Army to the gates of Warsaw (see p. 18). It had a daring raid-the attack of British airmen on Germany's naval 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...
Audience. What gave World War II its hectic, high-speed air? Unlike any war in history, its outcome, scope, character, depended less on the antagonists than on those who watched the fighting. Not maneuvers on the plains of Poland, but Moscow's opinions about them, about the German army, about German plans, were historically decisive; not the sinking of British freighters, but Mussolini's opinion as to the strength of the British fleet, forecast the future of war. Only 206,000,000 of Europe's 462,000,000 were officially at war last week.* But never...
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...