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March 7. Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland...
Strategy. Day by day at German Army Headquarters somewhere in the Rhineland last week, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and their commanding generals-von Brauchitsch, Keitel, Milch, Guderian-contemplated their operations map of Western Europe with profound satisfaction. Everything was working according to plan. Attack has always appealed to the German mind. And now they had such an attack! Their first push had already driven straight across Holland to Rotterdam. Before the Allied Armies rushing northward from the French border had time to reach prepared Belgian positions along the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liége, a swift...
...Command started something it had not tried in all the eight months of World War II: night bombing of military and industrial objectives in Germany. British Wellingtons, Whitleys and Hampdens raided far into Germany. Oil storage tanks in Hamburg and Bremen were destroyed, communications bombed up & down the Rhineland...
...raid the British claimed to have wrought havoc over a 200-mile stretch of Rhineland between Dusseldorf and Mann heim. Their special objectives were gasoline tanks and refineries, the fuel supply which Germany needs for her planes and motorized equipment. Such attacks in vited retaliation, but the British knew they would soon be bombed anyhow...
Died. General Marie Louis Adolphe Guillaumat, 77, commander in chief of the Allied forces in the East (1917), chief of the post-war army of occupation in the Rhineland, onetime (1926) French Minister of War; of pneumonia; in Nantes...