Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cossel, who as trainer of the Integralistas, skipped following their abortive coup against the Government, but immediately returned as a "Cultural Attache " of the German Embassy. He has disseminated aggressive culture among Brazil's 750,000 Germans, formed storm battalions to beat up those who would not go Nazi, smuggled arms and ammunition, distributed the usual films and literature...
...many months" of German transport and troop accumulations at Baltic ports, the Allies were unprepared for a northern Nazi thrust, the troops assembled for aiding Finland having been dispersed; 2) that the mining of the Norwegian waters on April 8 coincided purely by "curious chance" with the Nazi coup; 3) that although the Nazis invaded Denmark and Norway on April 8, the first British naval forces did not land at Namsos until April 14 and the first British troops arrived at Åndalsnes only on April 17; 4) that the British Navy had not succeeded in interrupting a steady stream...
...Earlier, Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring had the whole terrain of Iceland and Greenland minutely inspected by a corps of German so-called "genealogists," "geologists" and "experts in falconry." Reykjavik meanwhile suddenly sprouted an Icelandic Nazi Party of native stooges with German paymasters. Preparations for a coup in Iceland were believed almost complete when Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler announced that in March 1939 he proposed to land in Reykjavik with a large delegation of Germans who would conduct genealogical research all over the kingdom to establish the "Viking ancestry" of prominent Nazis. It was just luck...
...tiendra l'coup (We can take...
...event all peace moves fail, Germany to attack at her own discretion as to time and place. Italy to remain neutral until such time as she thinks she can deliver a coup de grace on behalf of Germany...