Word: last-ditch
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...last confused, useless fighting in Europe was along the eastern front, where some panicky fanatics fired wildly at the dreaded Russians, and in Czechoslovakia, where patriots had risen to battle German troops for the capital city of Prague. There, a day after the overall surrender, a few last-ditch Nazis were still shooting, burning and looting...
...Last Ditches. But in other towns there had been last-ditch fighting. After the first few days, the Germans seemed to have lost heart and direction; Field Marshal Walther Model was said to have flown out. The Americans had a large-scale victory of annihilation: 176,000 prisoners had been taken; only about 30,000 German troops remained in the severed pocket...
...Nazis, as their integrated state shrank about them, the problems of defeat were insoluble. A decree by Hitler last week divorced Nazi Party duties from local government affairs. The German radio said that it was done to free busy Nazi officials from the burden of local administration. More probably, it was to free them for flight to their last-ditch Bavarian bastion...
...result, flour mills were preparing to ration flour to bakers. Several Western railroads resorted to the last-ditch measure of shipping wheat in coal cars...
...Army vehicles. Magnificent Autobahnen (express highways) enabled the Nazis to switch reserves quickly from one threatened spot to another. But the respite was only temporary. All along the Oder's east banks tremendous Russian forces were gathering like water behind a dam. German propagandists demanded a last-ditch stand, coined a slogan, "Victory or Siberia." Best bet: Siberia...