Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that is not so in the world happenings of today-and I am proud that it is not so. I am glad that we Americans are shocked, that we are angered by the tragic news that has come to us from Belgium and The Netherlands and Luxembourg." He praised the ideals of the New World ("We feel that we are building human progress by conquering disease and poverty ... removing one by one the many cruelties and crudities and barbarities of less civilized eras") and saw them menaced by a Hitler victory ("the school of destruction . . . those who seek to dominate...
...all.their Nazi craftsmen. Mere curtain-raisers for this show had been their absorption of Austria, their bludgeoning of Czecho-Slovakia, their rape of Poland. Only the prologue was their swallowing of Denmark, their kidnapping of Norway and imprisonment of Sweden. Now came the reil thing-grand-scale Blitzkrieg across Luxembourg, Belgium and The Netherlands with an end view either to conquering the British Isles or smashing France, or both. Adolf Hitler's visionary exaltation at this historic hour vibrated in his order-of-the-day: Soldiers of the West Front! The hour of the decisive fight for the future...
...Maas and Moselle, three Allied Armies protected overhead by fighter craft and on the ground by anti-aircraft guns spotted along the roads, started from bases along the Belgian border. The French IX Army wheeled right, into position in the Ardennes Mountains. They settled down at Arlon near the Luxembourg border before the Germans got there. The British Expeditionary Force, 200,000 strong and placed in the centre, rolled smoothly out of the Sambre Valley, heading northeast for Liege and the Albert Canal which its advanced forces reached, festooned with flowers from Belgium's women, within 48 hours...
...German Army was again on the march as early as 9 p.m. the night prior. It was moving up from Dusseldorf and Cologne and Aachen to cross the Dutch appendix province of Limburg and strike at the Liege forts (see map, p. 23); from Trier to strike through Luxembourg at Arlon and Neuf-chateau. At 5:20 a.m. the bombs started thudding into Brussels from 100 raiders that sloped over in waves. They killed 41 civilians, wounded 82. One gutted a house across the square from the U. S. Embassy. whose windows were smashed. Ambassador John Cudahy lost hearing...
Germany at large slept on, learning only at 8 o'clock that Der Tag had come, when Dr. Goebbels in suave radio tones announced that Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg had been taken "under protection" by the Reich. German laborers plodding to work in wooden-soled shoes, with their black bread and margarine wrapped in a newspaper, scarcely paused to listen at the public loudspeakers. The events of the past six years had endowed them with a stoic indifference which no new violence could shatter. Men over 50 had been drafted and even disabled veterans were called into service...