Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes he was pushed to defy orders from his U.S. superiors when General de Gaulle gave him contrary orders. When De Gaulle heard that the armistice was to be signed in Berlin without a French representative, he ordered De Lattre to go straight to Berlin without asking anyone's permission and to sign; De Lattre went and signed-as a witness. Then he issued one of his Napoleonic orders of the day: "The day of victory has arrived . . . victory of May, radiant victory of springtime, which gives back to our France her youth, her strength and her hope...
Suzanne bore Otto a son. To famed French Novelist Jules Remains, visiting Abetz' shabby Berlin apartment in 1934, the child seemed "touching, born as he was, not of a chance meeting between two people, but of an ideal which had drawn them together...
...desk to open his mail. On top of the pile was a blank sheet, marked with a single big F. That same day, in the seaside town of Rostock, the sidewalks were strewn with Fs torn from the newspapers. In Leipzig, Weimar, Potsdam and the Soviet sector of Berlin, white, chalked Fs appeared on the shells of bombed-out buildings. The F stood for Freiheit-freedom from Soviet terror...
...fervent, forceful man who started this campaign of passive resistance is Rainer Hildebrandt, a 34-year-old German free-lance writer. Sitting in his faded Berlin apartment, Hildebrandt last week explained his purpose: "The Russians will see an F and know that people still have courage to speak up for human decency. German Spitzel [informers] will find the mark on their homes and will wonder whether the Red arm of the MVD is really long enough to protect them. Ordinary citizens, seeing an F, will know they are not alone, that there is more to be done against inhumanity than...
Confidence & Conviction. Berlin's Western Military Government officials, who first dubbed Hildebrandt a "madman and fanatic," now call him "one of the few people around here who really does something." Communists curse the Kampfgruppe as an "Anglo-American espionage center," occasionally send their agents to try to gain Hildebrandt's confidence...