Word: executioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Germany, 50,000 ragged men, deserters since the invasion from forced labor gangs, were reported roaming in little bands, harassing farms and little villages at night, heading grimly toward the German lines and a chance to join the Underground. From the wooded hills around Pinczow in southern Poland, guerrillas...
¶ The capture, trial and execution of a traitor: wry, long-necked, the flaps of his cap like the ears of an animal, he looks simpleminded, hardly aware of what is happening to him.
A shocked, silent House of Commons last week heard more about the Gestapo execution of 50 Allied air officers who had escaped from a German prison camp (TIME, May 29).
"I am in Italy, in good health and spirits, to re-equip myself and write my stories, after which I will go back to rejoin Tito. I was captured by Nazi paratroopers (see PRESS), lined up against a wall for execution, talked the Germans out of it, then escaped, covered...
Another Way of Dying. After an hour we found that in place of execution we were merely to be offered another way of dying. A man led the four of us to the advanced positions and from there we were ordered to carry a wounded German on a stretcher across...