Word: juggernaut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the brilliant sunshine which Germans call "Hitler weather"-they used to call it "Kaiser weather"-the Führer rumbled off to Danzig in a six-wheeled juggernaut staff car, followed by two Gestapo cars in which guards sat fingering new-style German repeater rifles. They did not shoot when the sidewalk lines of brown-shirted storm troops holding people back in Danzig were repeatedly broken as crowds surged forward cheering. One break was made by a brawny group of Red Cross nurses. Whooping with excitement, young Danzig students risked their lives in dashes right to the juggernaut...
...nearest points to England and the Channel she was planning an air war on British shipping, to back up her submarine attacks on Britain's food supply. But Allied and neutral apprehensions inclined toward the explanation denied by Dr. Goebbels. From near Aachen the great German juggernaut started rolling 25 years ago. Transit of the Lowlands has always been the basic principle of German war to the west. Nature made it so long before the Maginot Line was built...
...Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia (see map, p. 19). It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take and keep this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines for the time being. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil or consider himself at war with them, he determined on the complete shattering and subjugation of Poland. Ordering his other generals to hold the Western Front (see p. 28), he made...
Weather, next to stomachs, is war's most basic consideration.* Six predictably fair weeks of Polish autumn lay ahead for action on the fat Polish plains. Then will come rains which the Poles hope will bog down the German juggernaut on the purposely unpaved roads leading in from the borders. In the mountain passes on the South soon will come General Snow to aid the defenders...
...Last time the German juggernaut rolled, it went through Luxembourg, the tiny (999 sq. mi.) independent duchy tucked in between Belgium and France on the German border. Last week Luxembourg's ruler, Grand Duchess Charlotte, 43, was at home, with Europe shaking around her. At the White House as weekend guests (she has no Washington embassy) arrived her husband, sporting Prince Consort Felix, and their son. Prince Jean, 19. Besides wild boars, a favorite hobby of Prince Felix is the big Luxembourg radio station (strongest west of Moscow) and which, should the juggernaut roll again, would surely be extracted...