Word: sattelberg
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...18th of March 1940, when the snow had scarcely gone from the pass between the Wolfendorn and Sattelberg, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sat down in a railroad car at Brennero station to plan their spring campaign against Great Britain and France. Twenty-two days later war began in Western Europe with a flanking movement into Denmark and Norway. Eighty-five days later Italy entered the war with a flanking movement against collapsing France. Ninety-nine days later France fell...
Last week, just 200 days after their first meeting at Brenner Pass, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met there again. The snow would soon begin to creep down the slopes of the Wolfendorn and Sattelberg, but that day a bright sun shone on the flower-and-flag-strewn station, made dust specks dance above the red carpets that led from Il Duce's luxurious parlor car to the Führer's austere private coach. At 11 a.m. Signor Mussolini, who had been reviewing a regiment of 6-foot Sicilians, walked to Herr Hitler...
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