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...Balkans, France-Hitler eased to varying extents strategic shortages of oil, iron, aluminum, manganese, cellulose, molybdenum and food. By developments of substitutes he eased pressure for rubber, to some extent for gasoline and quinine. He is still hard up for copper (but hopes to increase his stores by the conquest of Yugoslavia) and nickel (but has eased that shortage by seizing the nickel coinage of occupied countries...
...Hitler moved too quickly. The Germans already bossed the Italian railways. "Suddenly, without warning, 122 major train services in Italy were suspended. In the eight weeks beginning at the joyous Christmas season those trains were devoted to the task of hauling German troops and German equipment into Italy. The conquest was swift and complete...
Filmed by special motion picture photographers in the German army, the movie shows Nazi infantry, tanks, guns and planes smashing all resistance in their blitz conquest of Holland, France, and Belgium. "Blitzkrieg Im Westen" is the sequel to the first spine-chiller, "Baptism of Fire," which came out soon after the invasion of Poland...
Best guess: the British had heard that atavistic instincts had again got the best of many an Ethiop patriot. So Haile Selassie was asked to try to stop it. For if the conquest of Ethiopia were accompanied by numerous atrocities, victory would turn into a moral defeat...
...night of March 26, 1941, most of the Western World went to bed in fear. The hungry, conquered people of Europe slept sluggishly, despairing of deliverance. In the countries which conquest had not yet reached they slept fitfully, aware even in sleep that a blow might fall before morning. The conquerors, too, knew fear, for fear had conquered them first and turned them into conquerors. Across the ocean in the Americas, people who were still free had begun to feel a strange new force coming nearer-a force that seemed irresistible, that turned courage into fear...