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...Working with the bulk of the German Army, which kills or imprisons the enemy physically, are the military Economic Mobile Units, which kill or imprison him materially and financially. These dashing arms of the service are largely the creation of Engineer Fritz Todt and General Georg Thomas. Todt's boys specialize in wrecking and saving: carrying off to Germany everything that can be carried, supervising and maintaining for German benefit everything that cannot. They are speedy and efficient at repairing and replacing damaged equipment and property in war-torn regions. Versatile, they are equally able to strip a country...
...Imprison suspected Fifth Columnists without trial...
From Hitler's viewpoint the most dangerous aspect of Christian resistance is the refusal of thousands of churches, both Protestant and Catholic, to pray for a Nazi victory. The Gestapo can silence all open attacks from the pulpit, can imprison all outspoken pastors and forbid bishops to write pastoral letters, but it cannot make them pray for Nazi success. That situation is unparalleled in a nation at war. Even the Schwarze Korps, organ of the Elite Guard, admits it: "The spiritual gentlemen . . . write as though they want to make our soldiers dislike the war. They do not find...
...First to be convicted under this law was David Vanoni, editor of the Italian monthly La Scquilla. He was sentenced to 20 months' imprison ment by the Supreme Court for an article he printed in January criticizing Uruguay's action in connection with the scuttling of the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee (TIME...
...issue a blustering manifesto: "Courage! Our victory is certain. My mission is to defend Madrid at all costs. You must give up your lives before yielding another inch of ground!" Meanwhile Madrid syndicalist newspapers excitedly explained the Government's flight. If the Whites were able to catch and imprison its members, they argued, then foreign powers would have no choice but to recognize Generalissimo Franco as actual head of the Spanish State. Only this consideration, the journals exclaimed, could overcome the Cabinet's reluctance to abandon the capital, move to safety...