Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wait for the loss to take effect. So long as Germans held the Ruhr, they 1) blocked several east-west trunk rail lines and highways, thus complicating the Allied supply problem; 2) kept the Allies away from the Ruhr's coal; 3) held a base for possible guerrilla war in the Allied rear; and 4) tied down at least five infantry and one armored division, identified in dispatches, and probably several others as well...
...Super-scriptster Norman Corwin. To air "the hopes and expectations of the common people," Corwin will bring in short-wave testimonials from six continents (including a G.I. on the western front, a Red Army soldier in Moscow, a U.S. chaplain on Iwo Jima, a Mexican in Chapultepec, a guerrilla in Manila, a schoolboy in Monte video, Actor Paul Robeson in Chicago, Artist Thomas Hart Benton in Kansas City, Cinemactress Bette Davis in Hollywood...
...Guerrilla armies, numbering half a million fanatics, will continue armed resistance, particularly from the Alps; they will be supplied from well-hidden, long-prepared dumps. Thousands of specially trained Nazis will work illegally in Germany, sabotaging the peace, destroying Germans who collaborate with the Allies, keeping aflame the fires of German nationalism and Nazi ideology. A small group of highly trained agents will operate in other countries, will propagandize for a square deal for Germans, then for the return of German property confiscated by Allied governments, eventually for the resurrection of German cartels and industrial strength. Masterminds of this plan...
More as a formality than from any hope of help, the Polish Government in London for the second time in a month appealed to Britain and the U.S. The Polish Home Army (which is loyal to the London Poles) had fought the Germans through five years of underground and guerrilla resistance. It had aided the Red Army. It had suffered grave losses in last fall's Warsaw uprising. Now what the Germans had left of the Home Army was being systematically "liquidated" by the Russians and their puppet Warsaw Government...
...Guerrilla activity carried out over the whole of Germany, under Allied occupation, will be more difficult. The European undergrounds fighting the German conquerors had three advantages: 1) support from outside; 2) hope of eventual rescue from outside; and 3) support of the local population. German partisans fighting the Allies would lack the first two altogether; the last would be doubtful...