Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face an enemy whose reserves alone were that many. He dared not weaken further the garrisons of the Maginot Line or his ten divisions facing the new Italian enemy. The Germans, he prophesied, would extend their attack until it stretched all the way to Switzerland in order to keep him from concentrating his strength on any main front. Such was the grim situation, as the field grey forces and their blue-grey machines moved on, kilometre after kilometre, toward the Seine, the Marne and Paris...
From Paris via Switzerland, whither he fled from his onetime friends, the Nazis, German Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen prophesied the fall of Hitler "once the German people understand how they have been betrayed." Said he: "Never was a war so recklessly started and with less industrial preparation...
...along the sprawling, blazing 500 mile western front--from the sea to Switzerland the French tightened their lines and launched a fierce counter attack...
...Gibraltar" at Istein, south anchor of the Westwall, and French flooding of the river valley south from Strasbourg with water from the Rhine-Rhône Canal last week, suggested one place whence Weygand was drawing man power for his effort-from the Burgundy Gap at the corner of Switzerland. Meantime, only some 85 of perhaps 250 German divisions were so engaged in Belgium. At any hour Mussolini might march. Regardless of dangers on other fronts, Weygand had to strip them of troops for the desperate battle in the north...
When young Dr. Adolf Meyer arrived in the U. S. from his native Switzerland almost 50 years ago, it was common practice to herd insane patients together like hopeless criminals...