Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German troops, poised along the Atlantic Wall, got a peremptory order to kill their 300,000 tame rabbits, bred during the past year as an escape from boredom and garrison rations. Reason for the slaughter: invasion bombs and shells might turn the cottontails loose, set them to setting off the artfully contrived mine fields and booby traps designed for Allied soldiers...
...Hitler needed to do was to let his whiskers sprout and sit on a nest of thunderbolts and naked swords, thinking of plague and pestilence and rapine and slaughter and slavery for the vanquished, to be a fit understudy for the vengeful, murderous Jehovah of the forepart of the Old Testament...
...holds gauze to his shot mouth and retires from the battle with precisely the hunched, half-stumbling gait of an athlete taken out of a game. There are two moments of greatness: the slow, tentative wading ashore of the relief troops on the fourth day (no camera recorded the slaughter of 300 to 400 on the second); the faces of the marines as they watch the flag rise to the peak of the pole they have...
...slaughter grew too great. After weeks of soul searching and delay, the Allies decided to bomb and to shell the abbey. They followed a Dec. 29, 1943 order of General Dwight Eisenhower: "We are fighting in a country . . . rich in monuments which illustrate the growth of the civilization which is ours. We are bound to respect those monuments so far as war allows. If we have to choose between destroying a famous building and sacrificing our own men, then our men's lives count infinitely more, and the buildings must...
...unity was needed, and where was it to be found? The deep love for one's native country, to whose power in World War I all France gave eternal testimony, could not stand alone to justify the slaughter at Verdun. The old generous dream of a new world, where all would share alike in the abundance that all created-a dream born in the bloody gutters of Paris in the days of the guillotine-could not stand up against the ghastly reality of Bolshevism. The liberal hope of an intelligently adjusted international order of compromise and arbitration could...