Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward the end of last summer Brigadier General Holland McTyeire ("Howlin' Mad") Smith of the Marines, an impatient man in any weather, almost came to a boil. Chunky General Smith wanted to take his First Brigade of Marines for needed training in the outposts of the Caribbean, where they might later see action. Yet somebody in Washington demurred. Reason: there was no housing for troops near Guantanamo, on the southeast coast of Cuba, where General Smith proposed to set up training headquarters...
Recently, the station has taken on new importance, as it is one of the very few stations powerful enough to be heard easily in Europe. At present the station regularly sends programs to England, Yugoslavia, Holland, Belgium, Rumania, Germany, and Italy...
...security of a dead Austrian's doctored passport, works in a Viennese amusement park until Anschluss drives him to Paris. For young Ludwig Kern life is tougher: no papers, no such talent for moneymaking, an incautious enough heart to fall in love and travel with young Jewish Ruth Holland. Peddling toilet water (illegally) they move from Vienna to Prague, to Vienna, through Switzerland, to France, to Geneva, at times together, at times apart, in & out of jail, sickness, food, shelter and luck, at length to find relative peace, if not security, in the tolerance of a Paris which...
...might like to. Maybe it makes me an undemocrat too--but as I see it the moral of the Spanish struggle is not that the democratic forces, the people, turned their bare breasts against the fascist tanks, but that the people lost. Dutch students may riot, yet Hitler crushes Holland with barely a contemptuous glance in their direction. You do not win this war by snowballing brown-shirted legions, as the Czech people did, not so long ago; you win by bombing the Nazi armament works. The "power of the people" could not save Salonika for the Greeks...
Filmed by special motion picture photographers in the German army, the movie shows Nazi infantry, tanks, guns and planes smashing all resistance in their blitz conquest of Holland, France, and Belgium. "Blitzkrieg Im Westen" is the sequel to the first spine-chiller, "Baptism of Fire," which came out soon after the invasion of Poland...