Word: greenshirts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agents; amiable Gauleiters and hardheaded economic experts; distinguished Rumanian appeasers and mink-clad German and Austrian beauties who were paid to keep them happy. ... As the drama of bloodless German conquest later on drew to its bitter end, the old order dropped out of the play. Then wild-eyed greenshirt dignitaries, catapulted into power from a concentration camp, would make their debut in the lobby. Hopeful Axis businessmen would swarm here to buy themselves a Jewish department store or a mine for practically nothing. German generals, quiet and scholarly, would talk here of their old campaigns and think...
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