Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans openly admitted the gravity of the uprising. They proclaimed a state of siege and dire punishment if armed revolt persisted. Theaters and cafes were closed, a curfew clamped on from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. Parisians were ordered to stay away from their windows at all times, to leave doors open at night (for easy search). Gatherings of more than three persons were verboten...
...seething Copenhagen, Danes with rifles and machine guns ignored the rigid curfew, fought Germans armed with tanks and planes. Next day, upwards of 15,000 joined a general strike, shut down Danish war production. Stores closed, transportation stopped, telephones and telegraphs ceased to function. Crowds tore down pictures of Hitler, made bonfires of Nazi posters, books and pamphlets. Barricades appeared along with the flags of Denmark, Britain, the U.S. and Russia. Exultant Danes mingled scraps of The Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the King with their own sonorous anthem. The second night 700 Danes were killed or wounded. Then...
...southeastern France struck their hardest blows. They raided Grenoble, wrecked the rail junction at Bellegarde. In Marseilles, great port on the alerted, invasion-jittery Mediterranean, the Germans used tanks to quell demonstrators. The Nazis denied reports that Paris was seething. The capital, they said, was so calm that its curfew had been extended from midnight to 1 a.m. But they spoke of arresting hundreds of "Communists" and two shopkeepers who were ready to sell British flags for the day of liberation. Everywhere resistance groups, now designated by the Algiers Government as the French Forces of the Interior, listened...
Throughout the long, tense afternoon the hymns and orisons followed one another in unbroken march. The tired voice of Cardinal Ascalesi led the prayers. But no miracle occurred. At half past nine the Cardinal announced that because of army curfew regulations the vigil would have to be postponed. Departing, the people wept...
Palestine's peaceable Jewish majority promptly condemned the outrages, talked of vigilante drives against the outlaws. Palestine's British High Commissioner promptly took action: for Tel Aviv and the Jewish quarters of Jerusalem, Haifa and Jaffa, a twelve-hour daily curfew beginning at 5 p.m.; for sabotage and terror, the death penalty. Palestine, home of half a million Jews and a million Arabs, already one of the world's most thoroughly policed lands, now felt more heavily than ever the tread of law & order...