Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring day in 1939, a weary, grey-haired giant slipped across the Czech border. Behind him lay his ravaged homeland, echoing the Wehrmacht's goosestep; before him, Poland's reluctant refuge. The man was Ludvik Svoboda, a battalion commander...
...Threat. "Only from the air is [the enemy] able to terrorize the German homeland, but in this respect also technical and administrative conditions for finally breaking his terroristic attacks are coming into existence, as well as those for retaliation by other and more efficient means...
...Tactical necessity may compel us once and again to give up something on some front in this gigantic fateful struggle, and to avoid some particular threat, but it will never break the ring of steel that, forged by the homeland and maintained through the heroism of our front, protects the German Reich...
...First Operation. No longer was there a Duce. But more than 20 years of Fascist power and preachment could not be wiped out in a day. Mussolini, as much as any man, had planted the cancer that had spread beyond his homeland into Germany, Spain, Central Europe and the Balkans. The removal of the Italian dictator was, in a sense, preliminary surgery on the malignance still afflicting mankind...
...Hurricanes, Beaufighters and Baltimores were mostly Britons, with an eager edge of Greeks. For the first time the Royal Hellenic Air Force, built up in the Middle East, was taking part in a full-dress Allied attack on the Nazi-held homeland. Across the sun-flecked Mediterranean the light bombers and long-range fighters clove a path to Crete...