Word: slaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drang nach Osten. During last winter's campaign thousands of German soldiers were slain as they edged backward before a battering Russian offense. But few were captured. It was a different story last week...
...announcement that 20,000 Germans wore slain in the Stalingrad area since last Thursday and another 7,500 killed on the central front raised the official tabulation of dead and wounded in the twin offensives...
...news picture showing him about to plunge a knife into a rubber dragon which Macy's department store once used for Thanksgiving Day parades and is now donating to the scrap pile. Some Manhattan ingrates suggested that this was not the first rubber dragon their Mayor had slain...
...been able to pull out of the fire. Winston Churchill said that 75,000 Axis troops had been put out of the fight. Cairo reported that ten Italian generals and some 30,000 other Axis captives had already reached the British Army's rear. Other thousands, not slain or wounded, still wandered in the desert. Rommel might have some 20,000 effectives left, plus a few Italian reserve divisions, a remnant of his original force, but still the nucleus of an army if it was permitted time and opportunity to reform...
...wake of the far-ranging planes, British armor attacking the German column on its flanks cracked off segments of it and pinned them against the sea. Slain was monocled George Stumme, second in command to Rommel. In the midst of one melee, when a man darted from a crippled Nazi armored car, a British Hussar leaped from his tank and collared him. "I am a general," the captive said severely. He was Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Commander of the Afrika Korps...