Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reich's dread of a two-front war had become a staggering reality of three, with more to follow if the Allies decided that more amphibious attacks on the Continent were necessary. The Allies' breakthrough of the Atlantic Wall had been followed by an even greater disaster in the east...
Their troops on all fronts were tired, mournfully seeded with ragtag & bobtail levies from the conquered countries of Europe. The troops they faced were well-trained, superbly equipped and by now better fighting machines, weight for weight, than the Reich could muster...
...metals were running short in Germany. The Nazi Air Force and Army were reported squabbling for the available supply, even in such critical areas as the surging Normandy front. Chromium and manganese were desperately short, the nickel from tottering Finland might soon be lost to the Reich's thoroughly battered industrial machine...
...travelers from Occupied Europe reached Turkey. They had traveled separately, did not even know each other. But both had talked with officials in the Reich. In Ankara, both gave much the same account of Germany's last hope...
...that event, the official Germans tell one another, the occupied countries of Europe would again fall into despair. The U.S. and Britain would be shaken beyond repair; Roosevelt and Churchill would surely fall. "With its war won anyway," Russia would make its own peace with the Reich...