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¶ Attempting to reach the Don at Letskaya, the Germans tried to crack Russian defenses with revival of svinya (pig), a device used centuries ago by the Teutonic knights. They formed a triangle of several score tanks, filled the center with infantry, then rammed the Soviet line, hoping that the...
Congratulations on "Heydrich's Inferno" . . . a piece of writing almost worthy of the great Dean Swift. This essentially non-Teutonic mixture of humor and hate is another hint that Germany is not going to win this war.
Old Karl Baedeker's son Fritz catalogued Britain for future tourist generations with the same 19th-Century Teutonic thoroughness his father had lavished on the rest of Europe. But few British cathedrals, Christopher Wren churches or public monuments rated the final cachet of Baedekerian approval -two asterisks. Salisbury Cathedral...
For more than a year M. Guichard led his villagers back & forth. Then someone talked. German authorities checked up, found as many maidens walked out on moonlit lanes as ever before, as many men plowed the fields, as many oldsters sat in the sun, drinking the wine of Cé...
Shall such unity be brought about by a new feudal order with '"Jewish scapegoats, Slavic pariahs and Negro 'subhumans' . . . at the bottom" and "a militant caste of Samurai and Teutonic Knights ... at the top for all to obey?" Or (a doctrinaire never offers more than two choices...