Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutch doctors have forced a dose of political castor oil down the throats of Holland's Nazi overlords. Furious because the doctors refused to join a Nazi-created Chamber of Physicians, the Nazis threatened them with penalties. Thereupon 6,200 Dutch doctors shut their offices, went on strike. They told Reich Commissioner Arthur Seyss-Inquart that they would have no part of a medical society that sponsored "deportation of the insane and sick persons and the sterilization of healthy people...
...rear-guard battlefields. As in Sicily, limited German forces would fight for those lands-not to hold them indefinitely, but to make invasion as slow and expensive as possible for the Allies. Weltwoche said that the Germans hoped only to hold an inner citadel-Germany itself, a part of Holland, and the eastern borderlands of the Ukraine, Poland, Hungary and Rumania...
Schweitzer's chances seemed dark. Local observers thought that Terry wanted a way to recoup political prestige lost when Governor Spessard Holland ousted from the School Board Terry's henchman Russell F. Hands, who had been found drunk and naked in a Miami hotel with a woman in a like state. Terry dominates the School board...
...last week a German did the best he could. The German was Luftwaffe Field Marshal & General Albert Kesselring, 58, a handsome Bavarian who once was jolly and charming, a soldier and airman who once was counted among the victors of history. He had directed the air actions against Poland, Holland and Belgium, commanded one of the fleets which bombed London. He was now commander of all Axis land, sea and air forces in the Mediterranean theater...
Associate Professor of Education Howard E. Wilson will be chairman of the afternoon session at 2:30 at which William Holland of the Pacific Relations Institute will give a talk on "Key Problems in Asia Today...