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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breslau came the propaganda stories: a 4,000,000 Reichsmark collection for the Nazi Winter Help fund, as if millions mattered now; a ceremony to mark the 132nd anniversary of the founding of the Order of the Iron Cross, as if Breslau's cross was not heavier than iron. But shrilly Joseph Goebbels praised Breslau, and perhaps someone in distracted, fear-filled Germany paid heed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Battle of Breslau | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...weighs 45 tons, mounts a 90-mm. gun. The Royal Tiger is some 30 tons heavier (which means thicker armor), and mounts the vicious, high-velocity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: New Tank | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...combined military plans will be made known only as we execute them. . . . Nazi Germany is doomed. The German people will only make the cost of their defeat heavier to themselves by attempting to continue a hopeless resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Clear, Blunt Words | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh area, shortage of natural gas struck the steel mills a heavier blow. When the city curtailed industries to keep homes warm, U.S. Steel, with 44 open-hearth furnaces already shut down, was forced to shut down six more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frozen at the Low | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...Donnell, after which surviving American prisoners were transferred to Cabanatuan. He lived to escape, and to tell his story.† On his testimony and that of others, the War Department believes that 2,200 U.S. prisoners died during those six weeks in O'Donnell, and that still heavier mortality occurred among the Filipino prisoners who stayed there after U.S. Army men had been shifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Black Hole Of Luzon | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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