Word: gium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Berlin announced that on Sept. 11 Leopold had married Marie-Lelia Baels, renouncing for any children of the marriage the right to the Belgian throne. The renunciation was largely academic. Eleven years had almost leveled the stations of the dark-eyed commoner and Bel gium's morose prisoner...
Experts believed that the "Secret Weap on" brandished by Adolf Hitler at the war's beginning was anything from a Buck Rogers death ray to hot air. But the sudden, startling capture early last week of Eben Emael fortress, potent key of Bel gium's Liege defense system and synonym to Belgians for Security, made the world wonder. Germany officially announced that this exploit was accomplished by use of a new Angriffsmittel (attack method) operated by one Lieut. Witzig, an air pilot who landed his plane inside the fortress and in a few minutes, "despite heavy de fense...