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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus with a terse communique this week the German Army High Command affected to close its books on the Blitzkrieg in Poland, promised that "exact [German] losses . . . unusually small in comparison to the enormous losses of the enemy . . . will be given in a few days."* Estimating the material cost to Germany of shattering Poland in three weeks, the communique added: "Munitions and fuel consumption of this campaign amounted to only a fraction of [German] monthly production." With a stiff, heel-clicking bow from the waist to the Nazi Party, the Army High Command observed that in Poland spade-wielding young...
...Berlin sources said that the German High Command, convinced that the war would be a long one, planned a monster G. H. Q. on a mountaintop, strong enough to withstand any bombardment...
...Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch has the job of Germany's No. 1 Fighting Man. The German officer corps' leading exponent of not getting along with the Nazis, aristocratic, bemonocled Generaloberst Baron Werner von Fritsch, died under curious circumstances last week (see p. 21). Meanwhile, the German Army High Command was negotiating with the Soviet Army High Command through military commissions of German and Russian officers who met first at Brest-Litovsk and then at Moscow. They swiftly agreed last week to slice Poland just about in two (geographically) by a purely military-not political or permanent-division...
...Buffer. There had been reports in highest Berlin and Moscow circles that a strip of Poland would be left as a "buffer state" between Russia and Germany. This was even mooted in an official Moscow broadcast. Brushing it aside, the High Commands decided that no sufficient Polish authority remained in Poland last week to form the nucleus of a useful buffer, that the only thing to do was to draw the technically strongest possible frontier, separating the Russian and German Armies by the physical expanse of three great Polish rivers, the Narew, the Vistula...
...Radek? "The population of [Polish] villages and towns . . . enthusiastically meets the Red Army. The mighty Red Army and the high cultural level of its rank and file evoke general admiration. The population tears down Polish flags and replaces them with Soviet flags. . . . Peasants offered the Red Army the traditional bread and 'salt [tokens of brotherhood] on embroidered towels and invited Red Army men into their houses." So said Tass, the official Soviet news agency. As the week advanced, Communist cohorts from Moscow poured in after the advancing Red Army, brought 100,000 portraits of Stalin, Lenin and Marx, tons...