Word: schrecklichkeit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was little doubt that Britain would soon experience a Schrecklichkeit (terror) as a preliminary to a planned invasion. But there was also little doubt that Hitler would go through with the invasion only if, after the Schrecklichkeit, he believed it had a 90% chance of success. And so Hitler was busy last week on other fronts, both to stabilize them for the attack on Britain and to prepare new battlegrounds if that fails...
German military tradition goes back to Napoleon as interpreted by Clausewitz and made "totalitarian" by Ludendorff, who believed in the nation-in-arms theory and the war of extermination. Its weakness is a traditional reliance on Schrecklichkeit (frightfulness) which-though it won at Munich-is apt to backfire by stiffening instead of breaking opponents' morale. The modern German theory of victory by Blitzkrieg (lightning war) is untried and, in the opinion of many experts, unsound. Further, if Germany plans to carry war deep into Russian territory in case of Soviet participation, old Moscow Generals January and February (alias Cold...
...latest of the long list of nations that have resented the new idea in Schrecklichkeit is Turkey. The progress of the Turkish Communist Party, financed by Russian funds, is claimed by the Soviet Foreign Minister Tchitcherin to be more remarkable than that of Russia itself. The Soviet hand has shown itself in the big commercial centers of South America, and France has one of the largest proportions of Communist-minded people in the world. Germany has a similar problem and China has already seen her coolies read and run--amuck. The newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst are running...