Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany, with [the Finns'] help, should win the war, Germany would be as dominant in Scandinavia as in the rest of Europe, and there would be an end to the democratic peasant republic which has hitherto enjoyed the world's respect and sympathy...
Mind evolves. Date of these cave paintings is about 30,000 B.C.-the Paleolithic or Early Stone Age. It was a glacial epoch: the last continental ice sheet, retreating from northern Germany and Britain, still covered Scandinavia. The Alpine and Pyrenean glaciers shouldered far out into the adjoining plains; all Europe was cold, ranged over by reindeer, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses (see cut, p. 50). Here, arriving probably by migration from North Africa, homo sapiens first appeared in Europe. The Cro-Magnon race inherited or seized the valleys of the small-brained, beetle-browed, long-armed, chinless and nigh speechless homo...
...Spitfires, Blenheims of the Bomber Command struck in broad daylight at docks and shipping in Flushing, Antwerp, Dunkirk, Boulogne, Calais. At night even stronger formations coventrized Hanover two nights in a row, pouring explosives and incendiaries into factories and oil stores. More patrols swept the coast constantly from Scandinavia to southern France, looking for trouble. Berlin obliquely if mendaciously admitted the weight of the raids by claiming a bag of 33 British planes in 24 hours...
Diversion Before Invasion? Three major scares of World War II have been followed by major campaigns. Last February and March Scandinavia had an attack of terror; in April Norway was invaded. Last January and April the Lowlands had their panics; in May they were overrun. In April and May there was apprehension about Benito Mussolini's entering the war; in June...
...spectacle of picked troops practicing cliff-climbing along river banks. They have been observed plugging away at embarkation and disembarkation maneuvers along the coast. Thousands more have been drilled as parachutists. To carry them across the Channel new concentrations of shipping were known to have been collected from Scandinavia to the Spanish border. Thousands of smaller vessels have been assembled from prefabricated parts, including small, speedy, troop-carrying launches and torpedo boats...