Word: banat
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...toward Belgrade. To dislodge Yugoslavs from four towns the Nazis had to resort to shelling with 155-mm. guns and dive-bombing. The fight went on, although the Nazis and Stooge Pavelitch's brown-shirted Ustashi lined Yugoslavs up by the dozens and riddled them. In the Banat region 42 bodies swung in a market place for a day and a night. Hangmen noosed the young neck of Gaysin Grodza, a girl of 21 who had bombed a German store...
...Ceded the Banat region to Germany...
...Kingdom of Hungary, done in shrubbery, with a Danube of blue flowers winding through its length. It shows, besides the Hungary of the Treaty of Trianon, all the provinces taken away by that treaty: Slovakia and Ruthenia, ceded to Czecho-Slovakia; Croatia, ceded to Yugoslavia; the Banat, ceded to Yugoslavia and Rumania; and the broad plateau of Transylvania, which Rumania also took. Around the map is a border of flowers spelling out in Hungarian...
Word spread through Budapest that Yugoslavia, last inviolate succession State in Europe, had offered to discuss with Hungary the return of part of the Banat...
...their joy Hungarians forgot that whenever Germany gives Hungary something, she takes more for herself. By guaranteeing the shrunken frontiers of Rumania, Germany had squelched Hungary's claim to the rest of Transylvania and Rumania's part of the Banat...