Word: barbarossa
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...bearing the same crossed-shield device that Italy's Christian Democrats now use for their emblem, led the Lombard League victoriously against the troops of another foreign menace, Barbarossa, at Legnano...
...Nazis had names for the separate parts of the Great Conspiracy. The name for the seizure of Austria was "Plan Otto," for Czechoslovakia "Plan Green," for France "Plan Red," for Poland "Case White," for Russia "Barbarossa Contingency...
...might be finding its soul. It might be reaching back across the years to pick up again the democratic thread woven in a history of foreign oppression and domestic tyranny. Before Magna Charta and King John, Italy's northern cities had won self-rule from the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Florence and Venice had once borne the title of republic. But the trend had been beaten down through the centuries when the peninsula served as the cockpit of Guelph and Ghibelline, despot and noble, rival Spaniard, Frenchman and German. In Milan, in 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had crowned himself with...
Shirt-Sleeve Interview. Rare pleasure of twelve favored foreign correspondents was a chatty interview with Herr Hitler. Informally meeting them in the room of Frederick Barbarossa in the 12th Century castle dominating old Nürnberg, Der Führer answered queries sometimes freely, sometimes directly, sometimes evasively...
...Duce cajoled Italian peasants at their harvesting, speaking from a truck, a threshing machine, a motorcar, a platform built like the prow of a ship, and from a Hitler-taunting replica of the ox-drawn battle carts with which the Lombard League in the 12th Century repulsed Teutonic Frederick Barbarossa...