Word: torgau
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...Torgau is a small German town (peacetime population 14,000) but it-had its place in history long before last week. It was the scene of Frederick the Great's victory over Austria in 1760, and a junction point for Austrian and Russian armies massing against Frederick the following year. Last week history repeated itself at Torgau...
...proud role of telling Englishmen that Germany is out for naval parity with them in the North Sea fell last week to that astute young scion of Prussia's old nobility, monocled Joachim von Ribbentrop who, after coming unscathed through the War as a swank Torgau Hussar, was briefly reduced to selling whiskey...