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...Berlin radio announced that units of the barrel-bottom Volkssturm or Home Army had been thrown in on the Western front; very few of these pathetic specimens, wearing distinctive arm bands, had been encountered on the fighting lines. Substandard Wehrmacht troops were captured in fixed positions during the first shock of the attack, but as the battle wore on the prisoners taken began to look more & more like the cream of the German army...
...fight to the bitter end for the vindication of human rights and the preservation of Christian civilization. That conviction has increased by what I have seen in Italy, in Belgium and in Holland of Nazi barbarism, and by the tales I have heard from unimpeachable witnesses-tales that shock and anger. . . . We are deeply grateful to you for having joined with our other Allies in waging a war overseas...
Nothing can be done to ease the jarring shock of the first reports of casualties to their next of kin. But the Army last week adopted a procedure designed to eliminate the gnawing doubts and anxieties that invariably follow its terse telegrams. Henceforth the telegrams will be followed by full, fast follow-up reports direct from theaters...
...free to set up a soviet republic in Hungary. Said Bela Kun later: "All night I could not get it out of my head-es ging zu glatt, es ging zu glatt-it went too smoothly." The 133-day Red Terror that followed gave Hungarians a psychic shock which laid them wide open to the blandishments of Germany...
Heinrich Himmler's lieutenants were cracking down on all Germans of mixed ancestry, no matter how great their skills. At an aircraft factory outside Leipzig was a ground mechanic, half Jewish, whose father had been killed by the Nazis, and whose mother had died of shock. Now he knew he faced a concentration camp. When he was ordered to taxi a new Junkers 188 twin-engined reconnaissance bomber down the factory field, he saw his chance and took...