Word: terrorisms
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Through a long week of terror, cold, starvation, the men held out. Repeatedly the Nazis attacked and were thrown back. Artillery, both German and American, shelled the position. The trapped men, their food gone, came closest to surrender when the Germans set up a field kitchen near...
...Terror came on the cold, wet wind with the sound of Russian guns. Panic came on the heels of the milling, stumbling horde of refugees. Berlin, at last, was a battle zone...
Inexorable Hand. Yet the panic and the terror seemed somehow to be kept in bounds. They were not yet visibly leading to chaos and revolt. One Swiss reporter admired the efficient way the refugees were handled, in the face of terrific Allied air bombardments. For lack of transportation, the workers slept in the Berlin factories-but the point was, they went on working. The radio said the Russians had slowed down, that a providential thaw had come to the rescue, that German counterattacks were imminent...
...drink, drugs, homosexuality or women, Himmler seems almost normal. He has never paid much visible attention to the neurotic mysticism of Hitler or to the abstruse ideologies of Rosenberg. Unlike the bestial Julius Streicher, he does not appear to delight in brutality for its own sake. He simply uses terror with absolute cold-bloodedness and efficiency as his main professional tool...
...underestimated their toughness, resourcefulness and will-to-win. Yet as the Germans begin to see absolutely no hope of winning, more & more of them, not so sunk in guilt as the Nazi malefactors, will want to cry quits. There will be only one way to keep them in line: terror...