Word: flees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After spending four months in a Nazi concentration camp and witnessing all the horrors of Jewish persecution in Austria, Dr. Ludwig Schiffer is now at Harvard in the Law School. Until he was forced to flee in December, 1938, Dr. Schiffer was a prominent lawyer in Vienna, but now he must start again as a first year student...
...quaking neutrals last week were the Swiss. In their two largest cities, Basle and Zurich, both within easy striking distance of the Reich, ominous instructions from the Swiss General Staff were distributed from house to house. These ordered the two cantons' 864,000 citizens to get ready to flee to the countryside in case Switzerland is attacked, warned them to hold themselves in permanent readiness for an evacuation call which may come at any moment...
...encircling forces cut the Russian supply lines. Their food gone, the Russians had to live on provisions dropped by parachute. But last week help was no nearer than the Kollaan and Aitto rivers, and the two divisions at Kitela, their morale sapped by hunger and cold, could not even flee back to Russia...