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...Hole up in the Siegfried line and try to live a few days longer? Still try to fend off the powerful Russian assaults on the east and in the Balkans ? Live on after these bastions had fallen, while boys and old men, now under training in the Reich, died to postpone the day of doom...
This week Germany stood all but alone. Finland was following Rumania out of the war, more decisively than had feckless Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS). With her went her priceless stores of nickel, manganese and cobalt. Fat, foolish Hungary lay open to the Russians. The "holy soil" of the Reich itself had already been torn by the tracks of U.S. tanks. The haze before the beast's eyes deepened. Soon night would shut...
Memories. In 78 hours last week units of General Patton's Third Army swept over the Marne near Paris, zipped through to Verdun and a minor battle. Within another 48 hours they were in Alsace, at Metz; then they were reported stabbing into the Reich's rich industrial Saar Basin...
...Bulgarian troops in Greece and Yugoslavia, disarming of the few German troops still in Bulgaria. ¶Hungary's astute Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, dissolved all political parties (the only undissolved parties in Hungary are pro-Nazi), called an emergency cabinet meeting, received an emergency visitor from the Reich, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...Russians, wearing regular German uniforms, had been captured in the first days of fighting in Normandy. Their story was that they had been seized by the Nazis back in 1941, forced into labor battalions in the Reich and later sent to man a position on the coast of France. When U.S. soldiers stormed their beachhead, they said, they promptly surrendered. Their ages ranged from...