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...When the Reich decided in the spring of 1941 to help Italy in the Balkans, this was done not to achieve personal aims but to assist an ally...
...member of the Axis, Italy was an economic liability to Germany, got more than she gave: coal, rolling stock, iron & steel products, machinery, machine tools. The prime Italian demand on the U.S. will be for coal (she has been receiving 1,000,000 tons a month from the western Reich and Silesia). The day after the surrender was announced, Fuel Administrator Harold L. Ickes revealed that the U.S. is already sending undisclosed amounts of coal to Italy. Only the future would reveal how much oil and gasoline the U.S. must now add to the total going abroad...
...compel us once and again to give up something on some front in this gigantic fateful struggle, and to avoid some particular threat, but it will never break the ring of steel that, forged by the homeland and maintained through the heroism of our front, protects the German Reich...
...three railway, routes into upper Italy from Austria and Yugoslavia, the interior railways, roads and airdromes without which the German armies could not long be supported. Rommel's eventual task: to hold the mountains and passes of northern Italy against Allied armies at these gates to the Reich...
Would they choose the quick end of 1918, saving what they could for recovery and yet another war? Or would they choose an end delayed to the last moment, the last shot, the last inch of territory outside the Reich-and to the last bomb on the last city of Germany? There were many indications that Hitler and his men had made the second choice, with some important reservations. Upon their choice, as much as upon Allied strategy, would depend the course and tempo of the war in its final European phase...