Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest, puppet Admiral Nicholas Horthy issued the war's first Hungarian order of the day: "The war is now approaching its final phase. . . . Once more [it is] a matter of the immediate defense of our fatherland...
...enthusiastic about the Provisional Government that succeeded the Czar, but when the Bolsheviks took Russia out of World War I the U.S. sent "protective" U.S. forces to Archangel and Vladivostok. The Bolsheviks considered this part of a general capitalist plot against the "Workers' Fatherland," though the presence of U.S. troops kept Japan from biting off eastern Siberia...
...skiing over the border into Czechoslovakia. From there he went to Sweden, while his wife was being held as a hostage in Germany during 1934 and 1935. From Sweden he issued underground newspapers and pamphlets until 1940, when the German government ordered his return to the fatherland...
...demoralized, frustrated lower middle class. Mucked about by the last war, by inflations and depressions, worried neurotic by unemployment, pressed between big business and the trade unions-these were the ones who turned to Hitler and the Nazi Party for economic salvation, for personal advancement, for resurrection of their Fatherland...
...what is necessary-otherwise this will be done without you or even perhaps against you. . . . Declare war on this fatal regime and . . . demand the formation of a government backed by the people's confidence. Only such a government would be capable of creating the conditions for our Fatherland's honorable withdrawal from the war, and for insuring a peace which will not mean a calamity to Germany...