Word: flee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joachim Gottschalk had often played Hamlet at Berlin's Deutsches Theater. Last October the Nazi Party demanded that he divorce his Jewish wife. Joachim Gottschalk decided to flee the oppressor's wrong, to brave the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. Joachim Gottschalk, his Jewish wife and their young child died by their own hands...
Sparks from his torch must have shot into the pile. Smoke puffed up. Flames spurted. Only two buckets of water were at hand. Workmen had to flee. From the deck outside they poked a hose through a window. A feeble stream had no effect. Fire licked along ceilings, cabin walls, panelings...
...short, the Russians' counterstroke was not yet a great Russian victory from a military point of view. They had broken the Nazi spearhead that had taken Rostov and forced it to flee west for safety. In so doing they canceled out all the work the Germans had done in that area since early October. It came as a very embarrassing riposte to Hitler, who had said unequivocally that Russia was already beaten. It showed that although great Soviet forces were tied down in defense of Moscow, the Russians could recover quickly and mount a real offensive...
Equally frank and detailed is the Institute's report on the Jewish refugee problem. Nearly a million European Jews had to flee their homes between 1933 and 1940. Principal havens: 330,000 to Russia (300,000 from the Nazi part of Poland at the start of World War I), 150,000 to England, France, Belgium and The Netherlands (Nazis have caught up with them again in the last three), 135,000 to the U.S., 116,000 to Latin America, 110,000 to Palestine...
...King "not to disgrace the Church with such a bishop." One month after becoming bishop of Autun, Talleyrand left the Church, joined the Revolution, initiated a bill to strip the Church of all its property in France. Says Ferrero: "The rebellious prisoner had taken advantage of an earthquake to flee over the ruins of his prison...