Word: polese
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> Basic Nazi technique of systematically shocking and sickening the population, making it apathetically submissive to totalitarian control, was worked hard. Last week Germans took United Pressman Fred Oechsner on a tour of captured Polish villages, showed him the bodies of 25 villagers, claimed they had been mutilated and killed by...
Hospital trains began to arrive in Berlin and Hitler Youths were given first-aid training. But no casualty lists were published. Stories of glorious victories over the Poles gave the people something to be happy about. Secure in its belief that the defeat of Poland would be followed by peace...
> Over the frequency of Warsaw's Radio Station 1, as German forces surrounded the city, came strange, un-Pole-like reports: "The sky is glowing from scores of huge fires raging beyond control. . . . Complete anarchy prevails. . . . Bands of robbers began plundering stores and breaking into private apartments. . . . Many used...
"Atrocity" story-of-the-week came not from France or Britain but from Germany. Frederick Oechsner, United Press correspondent with the German Army in Poland, cabled that he had seen 25 bodies in Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), supposedly civilians of German blood who had been killed and mutilated by retreating Poles. German...
Key to understanding Poland, says Author Buell, is its peculiar domestic and external problems. They are numerous and acute. Poland has 1) an unfortunate place on the map, between two countries which have more than once collaborated in partitioning it; 2) no natural frontiers; 3) desperate agrarian problems, aggravated by...