Word: marched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Hitler's eastern march had already impressed the Balkans was apparent from the quick answer he got from Rumania on his proposal to trade goods for foodstuffs...
...started a punch at Austria in 1934 and was blocked by Benito Mussolini. The speed, precision and preparation with which Adolf Hitler moves should no longer surprise the world. But last week he outdid himself. The four familiar steps of a Hitler conquest-preliminary propaganda, conference with victims, march of troops, and triumphal entry-followed each other like the rapid fire of a machine gun. His culminating campaign in Czecho-Slovakia lasted exactly three days...
Soon after, Herr Hitler issued two other proclamations. One officially mobilized the Army, which of course had got its real marching papers long before: "Wherever the march meets resistance, it shall be broken immediately and with every means. ..." A third manifesto announced the new triumph to the German people. They showed no emotion. Herr Hitler has never let them think for a minute that any of his adventures have the smallest chance of meeting defeat...
...hour and 45 minutes after the first proclamation was issued the Army's march on Prague began. "Attention! Attention!" blared Czech radios every five minutes all day. "German Army infantry and aircraft are beginning occupation of the republic. . . . The slightest resistance will bring . . . utter brutality. All commands have to obey the order. The units will be disarmed. Military and civil airplanes must remain in airports...
...said the Führer, just after marching his troops into the Rhineland in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles in March 1936. Since the Rhineland was technically part of Germany, the militarization did not qualify as an aggrandizement, but was nevertheless a reassertion of pre-War boundaries...