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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...
...virtually singlehanded - altogether a potentially formidable but completely un tried force of about 650,000 men. They counted a Greek force of at most 15 divisions totaling at most 300,000. Of these, over half had their hands full in Albania ; a division or two manned the defenses of Thrace and perhaps three were available to help the British; the rest were reserves...
...without any properly organized resistance in all of southern Yugoslavia, there was little that could be done to stop the in credibly daring German cross-country dash. Certainly the Yugoslav attack on northern Albania, capturing 100 men in about the time that the Nazis were taking 100,000 in Thrace and Yugoslavia was not the answer. At noon on the sixth day, German motorcycle patrols met the van guard of a pompous Italian parade (the Arezzo and Florence Divisions of regulars, a regiment of Bersaglieri, a legion of Blackshirts) which had succeeded in push ing about six miles...
...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...