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...back to its own. Ludendorff's memoirs reveal that German aviation was ready to destroy London and Paris in 1918 with newly invented magnesium-thermite bombs. But the German Army's situation was then so desperate that the high command felt such horror would win them only harsher peace terms. Magnesium-thermite bombs, now raining on British cities, were first used extensively in the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1936. But, says Zanetti, no new incendiary types have been invented since 1918, nor are new types very likely to appear. Other pyrofacts...
...terms of Adolf Hitler's new demands had come at last. They were not made public but their general tenor was known. Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain learned of them by telephone from his Ambassador to Paris, Count Fernand de Brinon. They were harsher than the old Marshal had expected. Not only did Hitler want the restitution of Pierre Laval to power to insure the "collaboration" he demands, not only did he want passage for German troops across Tunisia for an attack on the British in Libya (TIME, Feb. 3), but he also now wanted to occupy Mediterranean...
During World War I he served as lieutenant colonel in the Yorkshire Dragoons, was mentioned in dispatches and at war's end was one of 200 Conservative M. P.s who signed a demand for harsher terms for Germany. Meantime his parliamentary career had moved slowly but surely...
Poles accused as "snipers" at the German Army were rounded up for even harsher treatment than the tens of thousands of Polish prisoners who were being shipped off constantly to work in Germany, mostly on farms but also in unskilled factory jobs where it would be difficult for them to commit acts of sabotage. They were promised pay at 60% of prevailing German wage scales, and Nazi authorities rushed about trying to get their ragged prisoners-many Polish soldiers had thrown away their uniforms-adequate clothes, shoes and overcoats for the winter rains were beginning, epidemics were feared...
...finds himself commonly tell him to "Forget everything the Party taught you and remember you are a dog of a swine like the rest of these raw recruits!" If the Nazi has been an officer in the political Storm Troops, the Army sergeants up to now have been even harsher in knocking the conceit out of him. This attitude, raised from the brutality of a sergeant to the suavity of a general, was what Dictator Hitler encountered last week from General von Fritsch. and in Berlin it was believed that the generals urged...