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Old 04-15-2012, 02:02 PM
Buchon Buchon is offline
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Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber View Post
Scorched Earth?
"A scorched earth policy is the deliberate burning, destruction, and removal by an army of everything that would be useful to an enemy coming into the area."

So he mean that in the early days of the invasion the farms are not destroyed and fields burned because the Germans keep the agricultural production for themselves - all of the animals are not killed, but seized.
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