Word: thrace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This rule rigidly defined the Nazis' plan of action in the Balkans: cut Yugoslavia from Greece, pro-Nazi Croatia from anti-Nazi Serbia, pregnable Thrace from defensible central Greece, the tough Greeks from the tough British...
...evacuation of all western Thrace in the path of the German rive has been ordered "on account of military operations," the Greek high command said, and the removal of civilians is proceeding in orderly manner...
Turkey's defensive bristling was not accompanied by any public statements that she would be willing to help the Greeks or British. Only Greece spoke out strongly. Through George A. Vlachos, Greece's leading editorialist, the Greek Government cried: "Our Army will fight on, if necessary, in Thrace as it has in Epirus, and Greece will show the world how to die as she has shown it how to fight!" But widespread Balkan reports had it that the Nazi diplomats were especially hard at work in Greece, persuading her that it was unnecessary to die. They wanted Greece...
...frontier, a mechanized division took up quarters. Mechanized units set tled down for the winter at Turnu-Māgurele near the Bulgarian border, his toric jumping-off-place of the barbaric hordes who in past ages surged through the Rhodope Mountain passes into the fertile plains of Grecian Thrace. Across the Danube and two-and-one-half miles of marshland that separate Rumanian Giurgiu from Bulgarian Russe, Nazi engineers began to construct a gigantic ferry and pontoon bridge capable of supporting the heaviest equipment...
...industries. Hungry Germany takes a large majority of Bulgarian produce, and supplies Bulgaria with the finished goods she needs. Furthermore the Axis was eager to press on Bulgaria's behalf her revisionist claims-a corridor to the Aegean through Greece, part of Macedonia from Yugoslavia, bits of Thrace from Turkey...