Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that American troops were on German soil, nor the fact that they had pierced the Siegfried Line, which gave the strongest evidence that the war in Europe was rapidly drawing to a close. The clearest sign was evidence of disorganization in the Wehrmacht...
...Russian explosion in June and July had driven the last German from Russian soil, ended the Battle of Russia, whittled down the German armies in the east. It had pushed the German remnants back to the upper Vistula, to a line in front of Warsaw and East Prussia before giving them a chance to regain their balance. Now this line, which the Germans bragged they had stabilized, was regarded by the Reds as the starting line for their autumn offensive in the Battle of Germany. They were bringing up new, massive equipment with which they intended...
...Cracow and German Silesia. Most of the surface activity last week was in the Balkans, but the great drive had passed from the explosive to the mopping-up stage. The noises from Berlin betrayed well-grounded anxiety about the sectors north of the Carpathians, the direct menace to German soil...
Goebbels' legman Helmut Sündermann echoed Winston Churchill, with a German accent. He cried: "The German nation is to be wiped off the map. German men are to be enslaved and deported to all corners of the earth. . . . When enemy divisions reach German soil, they must be attacked from every house, every village, every field, every hill. We must not leave a single blade of German grass which might feed the invaders...
Rape of the Rhine Maidens. Every royalty that Eisenhower collected on his last show improved the prospects for his next production-a heroic opera about the breaking of the Siegfried Line and the rape of the Rhine Maidens. The curtain was lifting-Courtney Hodges'troops were on German soil...