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Word: lacunae (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completing the occupation of France, had closed Switzerland's last corridor to the outside world: the land was now an isolated little democratic anomaly deep inside totalitarian Europe. The intensification of German propaganda inside Switzerland led many Swiss to believe that Germany might like to fill the last lacuna in this Pan-Germanic ideal sooner rather than later. German propaganda was attacking Switzerland with a regularity that suggested a conscious campaign. The Swiss Nazi paper Die Front was seconding the Wilhelmstrasse's complaints accusing the Government of "terror, suppression, chicanery and injustice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Alone, Little & Tough | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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