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...command are 30 to 40 infantry divisions (15,000 men each), which he has disposed along the beaches and in rear areas. Ten which have long battle experience are probably kept at vital communication points, to be whisked where they are needed. Far to his rear, in the Reich itself, are 50 to 55 more divisions, some still training, all relatively untested. They are reserves...
Plot. What these men discussed the Nazis would have given tanks to know. Fearing that closer liaison would result in increased United Nations military action against the Reich, the Nazis inspired a burst of reported reports via Stockholm that the Russians might soon sue for peace. As if in answer, the Russians revealed that last winter they had rounded up and executed scores of Nazi parachute spies, had crushed out cells of fifth columnists-"disaffected youths, former Tsarist officials and civil servants"-in Leningrad...
...Reich Marshal Hermann Göring's private railroad car, innumerable brushes with the obligingly obtuse Gestapo...
...nerves, more intense than anything since August 1939, had Europe tight-strung. The Nazi Brüsseler Zeitung angrily reported that Belgians who gathered in the streets to spread stories of invasion would be punished for rumormongering. Inside the Reich the Frankfurter Zeitung declared tensely: "We are in this affair deeper than ever. We feel the moment of decision is nearer than ever...
...Germans listened on contraband frequencies were German. But the accent was British, the voice pleasantly impersonal. Burly Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F.'s Bomber Command, had gone on the air to promise that his bombers (and the Americans') would "scourge the Third Reich from...