Word: anti-fascist
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...over Europe. Communists have made great play with their claim of having been the greatest anti-fascist and resistance fighters of them all. Faced with evidence that they had murdered, betrayed or eliminated non- Communist leaders, Communists retort that their critics are trying to impugn the glory of the resistance, and, besides, it was wartime, spies were everywhere, and things were confused...
...begged, bor rowed or bought from anywhere and everywhere, some so inadequate that bombs were dropped by hand through toilet holes and gunners defended themselves by firing pistols at antiaircraft fire. The planes were flown by a motley crew of hired mercenaries, anarchists, Communists and dedicated idealists (anti-Nazi Germans, anti-Fascist Italians, English and French). Malraux himself flew 65 missions, crashed twice...
...last planes shot up, Malraux rushed off to the U.S., scoured the country from New York to Hollywood raising money and exhorting intellectuals to join Spain's anti-Fascist fight. If they lived, he said, their writing would be the better for the experience; if they died, their deaths would be more vital documents than anything they could write from an ivory tower...
Burdett blamed the Russians for instigating the murder shortly afterward of his first wife, Lea Schiavi, an anti-Fascist Italian journalist, while visiting the Soviet-occupied Iranian province of Azerbaijan. Kurdish gunmen stopped her car, singled her out and shot her. "She knew too much," said Burdett...
Political Record: There were few more outspoken critics of Hitler than his brother Clemens. His brother Bernard was driven into exile for his anti-Fascist book. The Beginnings of Barbarism in Germany. Said Heinrich, on hearing his family record praised: "There is nothing extraordinary about it; the contrary would have been extraordinary." A founding member of the Christian Democratic Union in Hesse, the new Foreign Minister entered politics in 1945 because (as he told a TIME correspondent), "In those days you Americans did not seem to think there were any decent Germans except the Social Democrats. We had to show...