European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse A German motorcycle unit in France in May 1940. Would Only cooperatively attack straight into their firepower. Shed ill ulu was the highly line was .1 lilt Short for a Long linn.-1 tenth leaders who Rem Emhemed How easily the germans had circled a Tinnil their defences in t pm by attacking through be Lilium. Did t want to offend the belgians by extending hi1 Maginot defences along their belgian Border Liv the time ii y woke up to the reality of Whit h War Thev were in. It would in1 too late. Sior were the Trench who at least were in the process of Nin Hili my million thrilled by British efforts. Incl they grumbled their allies weren t taking the seriously. The Mam British Etlor was id Send 2 Chi troops at Ross the Channel to also passively dig in and Wail for developments while Chamberlain dispatched planes the germans explaining to them what a terrible thing War was. As the allies riddled and hoped and prayed the War would somehow go away the germans were in a building preparing fury taking advantage of every minute even As i Liller skilled great forces Westward to bin Ark b the Rel i Tant warriors of democracy. During the phony on the Western i runt Between september i i and May 19-10, there were also rumblings of real lighting elsewhere. I luge lumped on Tim i Inland though they Bumble through the Snow fur free nig months being Oulman neutered and up inked by the Linns sheer russian weight would carry the Day. But the meal performance seemed to confirm Hitler s i Herov that the purged of a an Houldin l really fight a formation he Wourl use another Day. In Early april i h Denmark and vow a would be hit b the germans who had preceded invasion with a for tin1 Little countries to instantly and without re islam e adept the Protection of the i lateral ill planned half baked British Trench Effort to i ome to Norway s Aid with an Masion of their own would fail. Bui Hitler had bigger business to of by May the a i storm in the West had gathered and sva. Reads to a Tirol Lull blown on i Ranu and the other. He Remh Battle try of i 114 had been on to Berlin the stirring cry of 11 -0 was uttered by Garnoc Lin we will await events events weren t waiting nor was Hitler who was convinced that he was a military Genius. And indeed the i Sihrer 01 the Early Days seemed like some kind of seer. I had the British Anil f Rench in his pocket. Success followed smashing Success and even americans still Irving to imagine it had nothing to do with them could not remain oblivious to All the talk about nazi supermen and the new order in which whole Elvit ii of humanity were1 considered subhuman and til Only Lor slave1 labor and extermination. At 05 to hours on May 10, 1940, the supermen thundered around the impregnable Maginot shield the Vejr saw hello where polish lews were confined finally was reduced to rumble by the germans. Of Tram e into Belgium. Holland and Luxembourg dispensing the usual we Are coming to safeguard your neutrality baloney As the Pauers rolled. The allies virtually ignoring the wooded ardennes plateau rushed Massie forces Norl Haid into Belgium to Lounger the i Dpi Sonsol the invaders army group i Osl As i Liller and a Seldom wrong latin Mii Gen i Rah son Man Stem. Had expected. Thai s when Llie second part of the German Iraq mans let s i Lan Ellow lumped Oil an i sen stronger German lore Ellie 4ri division of army group i under Gen. Gerd von Kuns Ledl. I Ludig Sianii pan or divisions Poun d through the supposedly "impasviblc1 ardennes to the South where i a Belgium and 1 Luxembourg Tomeil impassable hardly. Breaking through the ardennes bridging the Meuse River at Nulan the germans rolled toward the i Naghsh Channel bolting j t Miles in seven Days reaching i be i on Mav to Ullmn the confused Alt Icil armies in Luo and trapping huge numbers of Daed. Exhausted troops in a Tiery. Shrinking pot Ket by the sea called Dunkirk. Under air and artillery bombardment. Dunkirk fell on Lune to and Hitler ordered c Hurrih Bells to ring in Germany for three Days to Mark what he ailed the i , Triumph in its history. I he greatest Triumph historians Tec Ord was t Wiite of Pele. I or oni e the germans partly due Loda sol c loud i Over c arising poor visibility had been Loo slow to understand exactly whal All those Boals and ships Olf Dunkirk s coast were getting away with i helped by a courageous trem h rearguard action that held the germans off they were getting away with a slandering British and i i huh troops in an eau Cross Channel voyage with men who would survive to Light on another june Day. Ihus the Only Allied Vic lord in those Bleak Eady Days was the wondrous Melreit. The bloodied Brave Tram e that had not Lei the germans pass in the last War had fallen in ust live humiliating weeks. So now the phony War was truly Over. Now Ihu Var was All too real and Wishful thinkers and faint hearts were leaving. An old lion named Chun Hill iame ill roaring As the new Leader of Britain now the american giant Siping the sleep out of its eyes edged c loser to the our and two Days alter the greatest i Tlora. There would be another enormous massing of ships Oil the. Coast of f Rante. This Lime preparing to bin the his time the fraying raving Genius Adolt i Niiler. His loitering third Keic h about to fall of the Edge of the Earth would ring no Hurc h Bells. German soldiers surround lews in the Warsaw a hello. Lews were taken to the death Camps and labor Camps. August 31,1989 Tripti Magazine
