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...Herr Hitler, as he proved in his seizures of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland, has a great knack of doing his grabbing where the western powers cannot get hold of him. The Axis still protects his southern frontier, Russia his eastern frontier. The Westwall guards his western frontier and the fall of Finland has made him safe from attack in the north. His vulnerable quarter is the southeast...
This burst of broad British humor contained a strong tincture of bravado. For though some day he may need shoes to make tracks, Herr Hitler now has wings to make trouble. The German Air Force has driven home this point by taking the lead in speeding up the tempo of war-in-the-air, and at least one Briton spoke plain truth about the opposing air forces last week. Air Marshal Ernest Leslie Gossage observed that British and Germans were "only sparring, with each side sizing up the other." One of these days, said he, "cities and industrial centres...
Strong Man. At present Göring's hefty shoulders are for many reasons the strongest support of the Nazi regime. The Army respects him because he is a soldier and ein Herr. Having no outstanding leader of its own, the Army looks to Göring not only for moral leadership but as a bridge between it and inscrutable Adolf Hitler...
...spouting pillars of fire. Then he heard the Sylt sirens start wailing, and searchlights shot up to finger the sky. Anti-aircraft guns started barking like a kennel of mastiffs aroused in the night. As the two bombers roared south, away from him down the length of Sylt, Herr Schmidt could hear other long-muzzled watchdogs take up the furious chorus...
...seaplane base down at Westernland, the anti-aircraft towers on the Hindenburg Damm (causeway) connecting the island umbilically with the mainland, and the seaplane base at Hörnum on the southeast tip 20 miles away-began thudding and crackling with bomb and gun explosions. For ten minutes more Herr Schmidt watched the show-biggest British air raid of the war-until, at 8:30 p.m., he "witnessed a spectacle such as I have never seen in my life. First I heard the explosion of a single bomb. A few seconds later another explosion literally illuminated the entire sky over...