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...Saarbrücken. Next night it was Saarbrücken, steel and coal center in the lower Saar basin, 300 miles from Britain's coast. The raid was lighter than the searing blows struck on Hamburg, but the Air Ministry put the bombers in the hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Threat or Promise? | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...bored from within. When Hitler came into power the whole Black Front went underground or, by thousands, into concentration camps. Otto, melodramatically helped by various Black-Fronters, fled the country, started his years of writing and smuggling through revolutionary flimsies and stickers. In Vienna, in Prague, in Switzerland, in Saarbrükken, he had a series of escapes from the long arm of the Gestapo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hitler's Rival | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Continued quiet in the ticklish Forbach salient, overlooking the ghost industrial city of Saarbrücken, led observers to guess that the German onslaught there last month, which for a time had the French defenders entirely cut off from support and supplies (TIME, Nov. 13), was a typical German "information" offensive, designed to find out what the French command will do in given circumstances rather than to take an objective now. Before the great Ludendorff push of 1918, the Germans conducted innumerable attacks of inquiry, compiled a thorough textbook on the behavior of various generals commanding various parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Information, Please | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...news correspondents wished to see action, the one salient to which they should have been sent was Forbach, the French industrial town (pop. 11,491) which is a small counterpart of Germany's Saarbrücken, five miles northeast. Forbach is outside the Maginot Line and its forts overlook the German city in the Saar Valley below. The French push of September brought other artillery up to assist Forbach's in dominating Saarbrücken, paralyzing its industry. The French retreat in October left Forbach sticking out like a sore thumb. By last week the Germans had brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Gamelin Speaks | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Saarbrücken Sector-"rich industrial prize," it was called in those first headlong days-penetration was between three-quarters of a mile and one mile and three-quarters. The most advanced troops were still three-quarters of a mile from Saarbrücken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Inches, Not Miles | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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