Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worm-turning spirit spread to a crowd at a nearby station, who joined in the fun of tossing rocks to destroy signboards. When the train began to move again, the rebellious commuters clambered aboard-but at every stopping place they spread revolution and left behind a trail of mob-torn stations...
Across the shrinking Nazi realm writhed columns of civilian refugees, hungry, pan icky, desperate. Remnants of the Wehrmacht, cut off, cut up, were dissolving into a hopeless, fugitive mob. Great centers like Frankfurt (see below) and Mannheim had become ghost cities, stark in their architectured wreckage, starker in their human disintegration. The few Germans left behind were unheroic, impenitent, apathetic, sullen, unable or unwilling to believe what had happened. The diehards were mostly adolescent gangs, leftovers of Hitler Youth, who fought street battles between themselves, spied on Allied authorities and sometimes flung grenades into Allied trucks...
...Germany of those crucial years was a cauldron of unrest both political and social, dominated by mob tensions and violence...
...Nationalist Socialist tide rose, and ill-timed tax measures of the ministry were used by the opposition to secure unfavorable mob opinions. Finally, in May, 1932, Hitler grew so strong that Professor Bruening was forced to resign as Chancellor and to devote himself to teaching...
Originally acclaimed as a spectacle to match "King of Kings," the DeMille production is a melange of religion, sex, and mob scenes. It is slow-moving and stagy, but a lot of people will love it for its bacchanals, its armor-clanking, its Christian-eating lions, and its mob scenes...