Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reactions to the BBC broadcasts to date indicate that English small fry are not much interested in military strategy, are not morbidly appalled by fearful human slaughter. They like to hear reports of exciting sea battles, are intense in their concern for young refugees. Most overwhelming response to any broadcast was the profound shock that greeted the news that all German dogs were to be immediately destroyed...
...almost were too late. Though London announced that the isles were demilitarized, triads of German "flying pencils" (Dorniers) last week swooped low, unopposed, to bomb and machine-gun what the German High Command called "troop concentrations." Eyewitnesses reported the blasting of lines of trucks carrying tomatoes and potatoes, the slaughter of a score of civilians at one dock in Guernsey. Following the bombings, the Channel Islands were taken over by German troops from the mainland, who scoured the shores and interiors for hidden British observers left behind...
...respectively of their own food wants. Already Germany has found it necessary to send 40 cars fitted for emergency relief service into occupied Belgium and France; while the Dutch have ruined much of their arable land by opening the dikes against the Nazi invasion, and may soon have to slaughter their livestock for lack of fodder...
...result was a scene of carnage and valor more concentrated in space & time than anything modern history ever saw: men by hundreds of thousands retreating in a desperation to live, other men by hundreds of thousands pressing forward in a desperation to surround, slaughter, annihilate. To preserve morale on both sides, and because the arithmetic was next to impossible, true figures on the loss of life were glossed over officially. But it could be guessed that not less than 500,000 men were killed, wounded or captured in seven days on a patch of earth about the size...
Around the Aisne front the French were reported to be hurling back waves of German assaults with terrific slaughter...