The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-02

It conquered an area of more than 600,000 square miles with a population of 06,000,00 in the first four campaigns. With its Allies it conquered another 300,000 square miles in II weeks of the Russian campaign. In two years the Ger mans further claimed they had sunk more than 13,000,000 tons of enemy shipping and destroyed an estimated total of 19000 enemy planes.
 Germany'S own casualties, exclu- eive of losses at sea and over Bri- tain, up to the beginning of the campaign in the East, according to official German figures were fl ,522 killed (same as Germans killed at Verdun in the World War) 24,168 missing and 168,780 wounded
 Bismarck Biggest Sea Loss At sea they lost the battleship Bismarck, the pocket battleship Graf Spec, the cruisers Emden, Bleucher, and a dozen destroyers. German losses in material were unrevealed. Total civilian casualties from British air raids were unpub- hshed but announced to be 298 throughout the Reich in July
 The two-year series of blitzkriegs began at dawn on September 1, 1939 when the luftwaffe virtually wiped out the Polish air force in a single surprise blow. In an 18-day campaign the Germans drove through the crushed Poland except for Warsaw, which, battered and ruined, surrendered on the 27th day.
 Poles taken prisoner numbered 694O00. Germans killed numbered 10,572: wounded 30,322; missing B. 409.
 Russia marched in to take over a share of Poland, which less than two years before had been bat tlefield of Nazism and Commun- ism.
 Tlaree days after Polish on- slaught, Great Britain and France declared war, which for eight months was termed "Sltakrieg."
 Allies Rouaed In N0sway
 On April g, the German troops consumed Denmark and descended on Norway, and by the 24th had driven the British from Andalsnes and the French from Namsos. The British captured Narvik after heavy sea losses to both sides, but evacu- ated 1t on June 10, ending the cam paign. Hitler won with fewer than 100000 troops, of which 1917 were ! killed, 1,604 were wounded and 2,375 were missing.
 A month and day after the Norwegian invasion, the mightiest army ever assembled charged into ard over Holland, swallowed up Belgium, drove the British into the sea at Dunkirk, and conquered France in 46 days. It is estimated that the Germans had at least 125 divisions on the Western front: the French had 90 and the British 10.
 On the first day, 5000 German planes rained bombs and parachut- ists on 72 Dutch airdromes and claimed to have downed a thou sand Allied planes in three days. The Dutch surrendered on May 15.
 Swept On To Channel
 Turning their fury southward and westward, the Germans crashed through Liefe and Sedan, sending panzers to the Atlantic coast in five days, About 335, 5,000 British troops escaped from the witches caulron' at Dunkirk where the Germans claimed to have sunk 90 rescue ships and downed hundreds of planes.
 Leopold surrendered on May 28, The Germans took a million and a quarter prisoners and the material of 80 divisions The Germans roared south and smashed the Weygand line for the second phase of the Hitler plan, and at the same time the Maginot Line cracked.
 The French fled in confusion amid Q mad exodus of 10000 900 refugees. Paris was entered on June l4: an armistice was signed with Germany on June 22 and with Italy on the 24th, ending hostilities early on the 25th. The "phoney" war had back-flred in Frances most crushing defeat.
 German losses, which Hitler termed much less than expected, were 27074 killed, lI,034 wounded, 1e,Be4 missing. A total of 100000 French and 48000 British were taken prisoner. 4,300 Allied planes were claimed destroyed. France later admitted only 520 first-llne planes.
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