Word: ist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After war's end, the Germans responsible for the massacre fell into Allied hands. Among them were two SS bigwigs, General Josef ("Sepp") Dietrich, commander of the 6th Armored Division, and Colonel Joachim Peiper of the ist Armored Regiment (known as "Peiper's Task Force"). But most were youngsters whom Dietrich and Peiper had commanded. In 1946, in Dachau, 73 Germans were brought to trial for the Malmédy massacre. All were found guilty and 43 sentenced to death. It seemed an open-&-shut case. But the Germans' defense counsel (appointed by the U.S.), an Atlanta...
...surrender officially. A shiny Buick brought Hyderabad's army commander, Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, a black-haired, black-mustached man who told me a month ago he would "fight to the end." He advanced to meet Major General Chaudhuri, commander of India's ist Armored Division and field leader of the invasion. They shook hands, lit cigarettes and talked quietly while spellbound villagers looked on. Said Chaudhuri: "You'll have to clean up the Razakars." El Edroos nodded, looking slightly pale. He was also commissioned to hold Hyderabad City, which had not been entered...
...enlist 25,000 selected D.P.s in the U.S. Army called for no Legion, but for enlistment in regular Army organizations. It did provide for citizenship after five years, and it brought a new flood of applications to U.S. embassies from Copenhagen to Rome. Said a Frankfurt student: "Deutschland ist kaputt. I'll take any chance to get out." In Rome, mechanics, priests, ex-soldiers tried to join up. Beetle-browed, thickset Luigi Fortunati stated bluntly: "I don't have a job and don't see any opportunity ahead. I want to become an American." An ex-French...
...Hejaz turban flopping rakishly at his shoulder, was standing in the night air, five miles east of the Jordan. Abdullah Ibn-Hussein, King of the Hashimite Kingdom of Transjordan, was watching his Arab Legion assemble. During the day, fierce-faced, khaki-clad soldiers of Transjordan's ist Mechanized Regiment had swirled and stamped, with arms interlocked, in traditional Arab war dances. With the first glimmer of dawn on the day after Israel was born, they began to wind down the road to the Jordan Valley in tanks, armored cars and trucks, slapping at mosquitoes in the heat. They crossed...
...League Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, arriving for a conference at Abdullah's palace, bowed low, kissed Abdullah's carefully manicured little hand, then placed it reverently against his forehead in the Arab sign of deference. There was more hand-kissing as Abdullah inspected the Iraq ist Brigade, which had just arrived to reinforce his Arab Legion. Said Abdullah: "I shall enter Palestine after May 15 ... even if the Arab League decides to accept armistice proposals...