Word: executioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They might have been people hurrying to a circus. They laughed, shouted greetings, raced each other. Good-naturedly they elbowed each other aside as they struggled for vantage points at the execution ground. In the same lot the Germans had shot 23 patriots last July. But Les Allobroges, Grenoble'...
A few veterans have already begun digging into the rich mines of political and human interest news long sealed by dictatorial censorship, but the digging has been difficult. In Italy, reports have been sharply restricted by military censorship. The ablest reports to date have come from the New York Times...
Japan admitted another execution of U.S. prisoners. A year after the deed, the Imperial Government announced (through the International Red Cross) that it had done to death three Navy men captured on Bataan and Corregidor. Japan named them: Marine Sergeant Joe B. Chastain of Waco, Tex.; Marine Corporal Victor Paliotti...
For the execution of the Doolittle raiders Japan had no explanation within civilized military usage; this time, if its explanation was to be trusted, it had legal excuse. Japan's story: the three Americans, confined in a Manchurian prison camp, had broken out, walked for ten days headed toward...
In 1918, following this tradition, the Junker generals had let the Kaiser go packing when the jig was up, and graciously permitted a new civilian government to bear the onus of defeat. But the Kaiser had not had a Heinrich Himmler, with his SS and Waffen SS, armies within armies...