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...fare better in the settlements than anti-Slav, anti-Communist Hungary. To the Kremlin, Rumania under a changed regime (and minus Bessarabia) might yet become a friend, worthy to receive Transylvania; Budapest would remain the center of anti-Russian plots, a handy spearhead for any future German Drang nach Osten. It would take a mighty swing inside Hungary to shake the Russian view...
Drang nach Osten. During last winter's campaign thousands of German soldiers were slain as they edged backward before a battering Russian offense. But few were captured. It was a different story last week...
Axis troops in suddenly hopeless positions gave up. Across the steppes plodded long lines of Axis prisoners hobbling to Russian bases, some to have frozen limbs amputated, stumbling toward the Volga in a Drang nach Osten such as der Führer never pictured. According to Moscow communiqués, 66,000 were seized in ten days of fighting. Into Russian hands fell quantities of booty: food, clothing, more than 50,000 rifles, 3,935 machine guns, 1,380 tanks...
...order to join the select company of Hu Flung Huey, Egg Shelley and Drang Nach Osten '45, fledglings must be prepared to acquire the scent for news, follow this elusive vapor to its course, and report the results in readable prose...
...last assignment Zinder went up into the hills of Syria to see how the natives would react if the Nazis launch their Drang nach Osten over the seas to the Bible lands. Typical tribal leader was a fat, unpredictable old chieftain of 40,000-who got his job by murdering his employer and annexing his sheep, has 18 wives and is known far and wide as "the man who calls himself...