Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 1934, Hitler purged his Party ranks of dissidents, linked arms with big business and the military to give his government greater power. Hindenburg died; the Dictator became President. Wehrfreiheit was proclaimed-freedom to arm. A year after the new Wehrmacht was born, on March 7, 1936, a thin column of field-grey troops followed a blaring band across the Rhine to reoccupy the territories under French guard since Versailles. The officers carried in their pockets sealed orders to retreat if France resisted. France did not resist. In the Quai d'Orsay and in Whitehall the policy of appeasement...
...remnants of the Czechoslovak State and appeasement died. On Sept. 1 German guns and bombs boomed forth the start of World War II. After Poland and the "phony war," Norway fell; Western Europe awoke-too late. On May 10, 1940, four years and two months after its first thin columns had marched into the Rhineland, the Wehrmacht roared into the Lowlands and France to Paris and the Armistice of Compi...
...Empire. The last days of his march across Tripolitania had been climactic. Eight days before, 200 miles from his goal, he had arrayed himself before Rommel's thin crust of defense at Wadi Zemzem...
...Eighth ranged out by day, fought its way through thin screens of Germany's over-stretched fighter force, and hoped for many more...
...rendezvous in the Indian Ocean somewhere off Madagascar went Germany's thin-lipped Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz and Japan's pudgy Admiral Osami Nagano. What the honorable Doenitz said to the honorable Nagano was not revealed by the Swedish paper which reported the meeting last week. But-if they met-a good guess was that they discussed the highly effective German submarine campaign-a defensive campaign which cannot win the war for Hitler, but can indefinitely delay an Allied victory...