Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy is a road to the Reich. But it is a long road: 800 miles from Salerno to the Brenner Pass. The peninsula is wrinkled with mountains. As in Tunisia and Sicily, relatively small German units could hold the ridges, command the valleys and coastal defiles, give ground slowly and at a price...
...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...
...began to fade months ago. There were reports that the Germans planned to leave most of Italy and Yugoslavia, all of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Crete and their Mediterranean islands outside their main line of continental defense. An inner fortress, to be held as a last barrier around the Reich, would include northern Italy and Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania, and a Russian front running through eastern Poland. But, said these reports, the Germans would surrender lower Italy and the other outlands only after the fiercest rearguard fighting...
...Boulogne, the port of northern France chosen for a pre-invasion test last week, the Germans are only 200 mi. from the Reich. For all military purposes, Belgium, The Netherlands and the Channel coast of France are walls of the inner fortress. On that coast last week, not a Nazi gun spoke when a British troop convoy hove within sight and range. Airmen sweeping northwestern France got the impression that both ground and aerial defenses were astoundingly weak; London heard that the Germans had withdrawn 13 of their 34 divisions from western France and the Lowlands. Either the Nazis...