Word: herrenvolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile England watched warily for the appearance of Germany's long-promised V2, reputedly a rocket bomb of vast destructive powers and far greater range than V1. Considering Germany's industrial plight, V-2 might seem a forlorn hope to the soberer Herrenvolk. But after the V-1 blitz, Britons were not discounting anything. England would not be entirely safe until Germany...
...Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito's National Army of Liberation, with a leaven of British and U.S. specialists (notably in demolition, radio, and intelligence), slashed gaps in railroad lines along which the Germans might try to retreat. The little people of the hills, ground down by the Herrenvolk, were rising in arms. And already the Russian armies were knocking at the Iron Gate to join them...
Berlin insisted that Auloch himself had not surrendered, no matter what the Allies said, but the U.S. press had evidence convincing enough even for the Herrenvolk...
...there was always the sea on the flanks: the Allies could still use the Tyrrhenian or Adriatic for amphibious bypasses of the Gothic Line. The Germans saw the possibility. A DNB broadcaster told the Herrenvolk: there are concentrations of Allied landing craft "in the area of several embarkation points...
...Turks arranged for five trains to carry out the departing Germans. At the end of three days they had only enough applicants to fill one sleeping car. The rest of the Herrenvolk preferred Turkish internment to the discomforts of home...