Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fled to West Berlin? To save his skin, for he feared that his superiors were going to "fry" him because one of his aides had been discovered to be a double agent, and also because a relative had recently decamped to West Germany. "I spent eight years in Nazi concentration camps," said Dombrowski candidly. "I did not want another dose...
...Communists since spring. The potent Investigating Committee of Free Jurists, whose network of spies in East Germany helps make life miserable for the Red rulers of that unhappy state, suffered a series of body blows: one of its top officials was exposed by the East Germans as a former Nazi youth leader; another was captured by the Reds when he went for a sail alone on the Wannsee; a third confessed he had been working for the Reds from the moment he joined the Jurists...
...Pavelic, a fanatical Croat fascist, was named Poglavnik (leader) by Hitler, and ruled Croatia during the early days of the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia. Responsible for the extermination of 800,000 of his countrymen, Pavelic escaped to Argentina after the war, began working for Stroessner late last year...
Since then, in a hushed movement that all sides are anxious to minimize, some 10,000 Rumanian Jews have crossed the Iron Curtain carrying exit papers for Israel. In Rumania, long known for its virulent antiSemitism, the Jews get little help from anyone. During the Nazi occupation, their numbers were reduced from 757,000 to 430,000; after World War II about 60,000 were allowed to emigrate to Israel. Today's flashes of anti-Semitism stem partly from the prevailing economic discontent, and from resentment of those Jews who became Communists after the Russians took over-the Russians...
...last U.S. reporter to leave the Nazi capital-aboard a train to Switzerland on Dec. 6. 1941. His book. Last Train from Berlin, was a bestseller in England and the U.S. (While still a political liberal, Smith is now embarrassed by some of the positions he took in the book, e.g., a statement that "Russia looked better the longer I stayed and the more I saw.") He replaced Edward R. Murrow in 1946 as CBS's chief European correspondent, was brought to the U.S. in 1957. Sig Mickelson, CBS vice president and news manager, calls Smith "the intellectual dean...