Word: polese
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With poles on rooftops and long loops of wire
In the first place, the Nazis by their seizure of the Sudeten areas, have set the precedent of claiming nationalities by the conquest of foreign regions and the subsequent creation of new minorities (for many parts of the Sudeten area include as many Czechoslovaks as Germans). What is more, Hitler...
Merely the thought of Hitler's treatment of German Jews makes his protest of Czechoslovakia's discrimination against the Sudetens seem like a hypocritical fabrication. It was the removal of subversive elements that were threatening the unity of the state that Hitler claimed to be the purpose of the rout...
In 1919, when Poland was at war with the Soviet Union, the Czechoslovak Army occupied the Teschen area in Poland, with about 200,000 population. Thus, last week Poles and Hungarians did not regard Czechoslovakia as a virgin land which Germany had just been permitted to rape, did not regard...
The greatest number in service at one time was 20,000 in February 1937. Used as shock troops, never allowed to rest for long, shifted from one busy front to another, the Internationals' casualties have been staggeringly high. They filled up bad gaps of a slowly forming Leftist Army...