Word: innsbruck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glorifying Adolf Hitler-and the only Catholic denial came from neutral Switzerland-the Vatican broadcast lashed out also at Nazi maltreatment of the faithful: "The latest news item from Austria announces that the closing of monasteries continues, the latest monasteries to be closed being those of the Capuchins at Innsbruck and the Franciscans at Hall. All the goods of the religious church have been confiscated...
...will never turn back." The first round had clearly gone to the bantamweight. Now it was up to the heavyweight to move in again. Whether the second round would be another story was anyone's guess, but that the Italians intended to try was certain. At Innsbruck Italian and German Commanders in Chief Pietro Badoglio and Wilhelm Keitel met and talked strategy. It must have been an embarrassment to both these old soldiers to consider that if the Italians could not knock over the Greeks by themselves, the Germans might have to come in through Yugoslavia. This week Italians...