Search Details

Word: saarbrikken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...work. He consolidated enough gains to put his heavy artillery in range of the main West-wall defenses in at least two spots of his own choosing: the Blies Valley (Zweibrücken) and the Lauter Valley sector. He claimed to have surrounded 60 German villages. He had Saarbrikken under control (it was too heavily mined to take frontally), had covered with his artillery most of the coal mines and heavy industries in the Saar Valley (immensely important to the German economy and not offset by Silesia), putting them out of operation. He threatened paralysis of the Saar basin with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: First Month | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

| 1 |