The sudden and complete Allied victory in Tunisia set up a clamor of urgency over all of Europe. Once again it had been proved that the German Wehrmacht was not invincible. To peasants and patriots in occupied countries the certainty of eventual Allied victory was a staff to lean upon until guns could be used again. Satellite states squirmed. In Germany, the "master race" looked furtively over its shoulder.
Fear & Horror. No propaganda build-up such as preceded the defeat at Stalingrad had conditioned the German people for the disaster in North...
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