Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the war began, Romains had finished eight volumes of his novel (16 in the French edition). Published in December 1939 was Verdun, a merciless account of World War I slaughter, and a harrowing picture of inhuman French officership...
...Investigation of War Crimes, continued to shuffle his papers, read reports, collect data. But his time, and the American people's, was running out. The corpses of three German officers dangling in the cold market square at Kharkov, swiftly tried and swiftly hanged by the Russians for the slaughter of Russian civilians, posed a question to Americans. What responsibility shall the U.S. take in the punishment of the war guilty...
Next morning the huntress was near her best stalking ground. That afternoon she made her strike and closed, somewhere above the Nordkapp (North Cape), on the uppermost tip of Norway. But she found a battle, not a slaughter. The convoy she fell in with was under escort of strong forces of the British Home Fleet. Then began a long, furious, desperate running fight, as the hostile ships turned and maneuvered, while big guns thundered and baleful orange flashes cut through the grey atmosphere. Darkness brought no respite; the killers closed in; some hours later the proud Scharnhorst took her death...
...living person; on second study it was a powerful and ringing tribute to a man who did his duty, come hell or high water but who, when action was no longer needed, could not carry through measures that might well have forestalled much of today's slaughter and destruction...
...German Army was decided ... at the end of last year. ... The Battle of Stalingrad ended with the destruction of an army of 300,000 men. . . . At the end of the Stalingrad battle 147,210 officers and men v. ere picked up from the battlefield and buried. . . . After the Stalingrad slaughter the Germans were unable to recover...