Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From its seats on the Eastern sideline, watching the smashing performance of the German juggernauts, J. Stalin's Red Army was at last unleashed at 4 a.m., Sunday, September 17. Led by its air pilots and big tanks, it rattled into Poland along all main east-west highways on a 500-mile front, from the Dzwina River (above Polotsk) on the north to the Dniester (Rumanian border) on the south. From past reports of the Russian mobilization, some observers guessed that 2,000,000 men were on the move. At nightfall, the first war communique from Moscow listed...
...Wilno and Minsk. Elsewhere opposition was nominal or minus. Refugees over the Rumanian border described the new invaders as traveling peaceably along the same Ukrainian roads as the fugitive Poles. It was a mass movement of occupation rather than of conquest, although performed the same way as the crashing German onslaught-mechanized forces piercing far ahead, infantry on slower trucks bringing up the rear. Conjunction of the west-moving Russian horde with the east-flowing Germans was awaited tensely. Would they embrace each other? Or would they quarrel over their prey? The answer soon came: the Nazi Air Force cooperated...
...reaches the Swiss frontier at Lake of Constance (see map). It has been under construction for three years and at one time last spring half a million laborers worked on it 20 hours a day. "The world's cannon and artillery cannot break through it," boasted the German high command as it was being rushed toward completion this summer. But in principle the new Siegfried Stellung is just a three-ring version of Colonel Lossberg's old zonal defense system...
...During heavy fighting north of Sarreguemines, German fighting planes flew out in force for the first reported time, to strafe advancing ground troops. Allied pursuits whipped out to meet them, claimed the upper-hand at dogfighting...
...German troop concentrations observed behind the Westwall from Coblenz to Mannheim were believed to be preparing, not for any major counteroffensive, but to reinforce the Wall, to counterattack locally, to engage the Allies in field fighting if & when they ever do break through...