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...Farmlands cannot maintain their present production. The world's population is still increasing rapidly, and modern medicine, by cutting the death rate from infectious diseases, is sure to quicken this increase. The falling food-production curve, cry the Neo-Malthusians, will soon cross the rising population curve. Then-kaput...
...Silesia Kaput. Official Berlin was staggered. Bluntly, it told the German people that Silesia had been written off, that the Reich's second most important industrial area was a place for house-to-house battling. Even as the Germans heard that agonizing news, the street battles were ended...
...Gleiwitz Kaput. The taking of Gleiwitz had been typical of Konev's technique. All through the fortified belts his tank-tipped spearheads had been in too much of a hurry to fight. If they rolled up to a strong point, they veered off until they found a soft spot, then zipped through. They had gone so fast that, in some cases, prepared defenses were not even manned...
...still burning wreckage of smashed German motor columns; they were so many that there was no way to evacuate them. On the roads the prisoners marched eight abreast in a column a mile long and a Belgian woman danced up & down with her finger across her throat screeching "Kaput Hitler...
...Americans rolled into Lyons, France's dull, straight-laced third city (pop.580,000), long the world's silk capital. There was no telling how far beyond the city advance guards had penetrated, no telling how far beyond that the Maquis were solidly at work. The Nineteenth was kaput...