Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarding the Polish guarantees Sir Nevile said : "Our word was our word, and we had never and would never break it. In the old days Germany's word had the same value and I quoted a passage from a German book (which Herr Hitler had read) about Field Marshal von Bliicher's exhortation to his troops when hurrying to support Wellington at Waterloo : 'Forward, my children ; I have given my word to my brother, Wellington, and you cannot wish me to break it.' Herr Hitler at once intervened to observe that things were different 125 years...
...Fifth Hitler interview (August 29) : "The interview this evening was of a stormy character and Hitler was far less reasonable than yesterday. A press announcement this evening that five more Germans had been killed in Poland and news of the Polish mobilization had obviously excited...
...casemates and tank traps opposite the neutral Dutch soil. Why? Near Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) just across the border from the Limburg point which runs down between Germany and Belgium, heavy concentrations of Nazi airplanes were reported, and heavy new concentrations of ground troops, apparently brought over from the Polish front...
...French accounts agreed with Polish, that most German pilots captured were youths of 19, 20, 21. The seasoned Nazi Condor squadron of Spanish Civil War fame was reported to have reached the Western Front from Poland. French pilots claimed to have proved that their U. S.-built Curtiss pursuit ships will outfly the Nazis' much-touted Messerschmidts...
...campaign in Poland is ended. . . . The grand total of captives is now up to more than 450,000. The total of guns seized already is above 1,200. ... In all approximately 800 [Polish aircraft] either were destroyed or fell to the [German] Army as booty. . . . With the exception of a submarine, all the Polish fleet still in the North Sea on Sept. 1 was destroyed or interned in neutral harbors. ... Of the entire Polish Army only an insignificant remainder still is fighting at hopeless posi tions in Warsaw, in Modlin and on the Peninsula...