Word: mitteleuropa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back in wrecked Vienna, dressed in shorts and puffing clouds of blue smoke from his stub-stemmed pipe, Gedye was once again a familiar figure in his beloved city. He sat in the British mess hall where correspondents eat, listening to ex-police reporters who are now self-styled Mitteleuropa experts, expounding on Austrian politics. He spoke only when he was spoken...
Over the Forts. As Warsaw was merely an incident of the great central drive, so Mlawa was an incident to the sickle thrust into East Prussia from the south, by Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky. Mlawa was a key point in what the Germans had called their Mitteleuropa wall, a depth of forts and trench works. It had zigzagged dugouts, trenches, minefields, concrete fire points. Rokossovsky's forces worked for two days on Mlawa, then painfully hacked through. Perhaps Mlawa was a symbol. For all its outer strength, it leaned on slender reeds of reserves - units of the Volkssturm, inhabitants...
...Austria-Germany begets Mitteleuropa...
...Mitteleuropa begets Central Pan-Germany...
...them. . . . Everything that has happened since has only been the result of the surrender of Czechoslovakia, an error without precedent in history on the part of the British leaders and a masterpiece of treason on the part of the French." For the surrender of the Bohemian bastion handed Mitteleuropa to Germany...